Friday, May 22, 2015

These Bleakly Beautiful Photos Tell The Story Of A Remote Coal Mining Town Near The North Pole

This Soviet-era relic company town still lives and breathes in the Arctic. Climate change could ultimately sink it—or make it fortunes.

Located halfway between Norway and the North Pole on a barren island in the Arctic Ocean, the coal mining village of Barentsburg is one of the northernmost towns in the world. In a new photo series, French photographer Léo Delafontaine traveled to the unlikely settlement to document its lonely existence and to contemplate its future as Arctic ice melts.

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