Svalbard_photostory.js

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var project_title = 'Life at the Ny Ålesund Polar Research village';
var project_subtitle = 'Mapillary for research';
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  'History',
  'Extremely sensitive equipment',
  'The Italian Station "Dirigible Italia"',
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  'On our way to the Gruvebadet station',
  'Inside a measuring station',
  'Measuring equipment at Gruvebadet',
  'Huts',
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  'The old remote mining town of Ny Ålesund the northernmost permanent human settlement on the planet. Mining has been stopped long ago, instead now it is one of the most famous Arctic research stations - being the start of both the first expeditoin to reach the north pole by airship, and the place where Amundsen (having a statue in the middle of the town), gave his life to rescue the Italian explorer Nobile.',
  'The <b>whole</b> town has strict radio silence, since some of the measurements are so sensitive that they can get disturbed by wireless transmitter several kilometers away. Every internet connection is ethernet, all cell phones must at all times be switched to flight mode.',
  'We were staying with the researchers at the Italian station. Every involved country has their own station buildings, the most prominent being Norway, Germany and China. Russia has their own polar stations elsewhere in Svalbard.',
  'For sampling water from the Glacier to the sea, the scientists need to take probes from the river every day at different places from the glacier down to the coast to examine the conductivity and sediment content of the water. <img src="https://blog.mapillary.com/img/2017-09-01-researchers.jpg">',
  'If you leave the town, you are required to have a loaded gun with you and rather not go alone. There are aroundd 3000 polar bears roaming freely. They are curious and might check you out. If they are hungry or feel threatened, they might attack and you are required to first fire a warning shot with a flare gun to scare them off, after that finally you have to shoot to kill. Nobody wants that.',
  'The equipment up here is both very expensive to build, and very expensive to bring up here. Also, in order to get good and statistically relevant data, measuring series need to be maintained over several seasons and years.',
  'A lot of equipment is highly sensitive and can only be placed outside the town, even though there are only aroudn 100 researchers living there during summer, and only 35 during winter.',
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