Could Alaska Be The New Center For Global Trade?
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Alaska’s Bering Strait region is a very, very remote place. It’s quiet; it’s wild; and it feels a world away from most global concerns. The Bering Strait itself is literally marginalized on most maps: it’s split between opposite ends of the globe, when in reality Alaska and Russia are just 53 miles apart. All in all, the Bering Strait is rarely the center of the world’s attention. But, that might change soon. The epicenter of this story is Nome, Alaska - it’s a city of about 3,800 people, and sits right on the coast of the Bering sea. It’s a frontier community with a boomtown history…gold was discovered here around the turn of the century, and the settlement briefly exploded to 20,000 people or more...and then collapsed back to around its prese...
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Alaska’s Bering Strait region is a very, very remote place. It’s quiet; it’s wild; and it feels a world away from most global concerns. The Bering Strait itself is literally marginalized on most maps: it’s split between opposite ends of the globe, when in reality Alaska and Russia are just 53 miles apart. All in all, the Bering Strait is rarely the center of the world’s attention. But, that might change soon. The epicenter of this story is Nome, Alaska - it’s a city of about 3,800 people, and sits right on the coast of the Bering sea. It’s a frontier community with a boomtown history…gold was discovered here around the turn of the century, and the settlement briefly exploded to 20,000 people or more...and then collapsed back to around its prese...
