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Ice Town - Life On The Edge ,Welcome To Svalbard
Title
Ice Town - Life On The Edge ,Welcome To Svalbard / BBC.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : BBC, [2016]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file (47 min., 42 sec)) : sound.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally released by BBC, 2016.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 22, 2019.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Longyearbyen on Svalbard is the northern most town in the world and home to an international community of residents who have all chosen to live in one of the most remote and extreme places on the planet. This is a place like no other, a place where you aren't allowed to be born or die, carrying a gun outside of town is mandatory and where polar bears outnumber people.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2019
Series
Ice Town - Life On The Edge
System details note
Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 - 12, Academic/AP
Contents
Svalbard Residents (4:39); Polarrigg Hotel (4:17); Tour Guide (4:05); Arctic Tourism (4:23); Local Hospitality (2:32); Crime Journalist (4:11); Dog Sledding (6:38); Svalbard Newspaper (2:14); Adjusting to Life in the Arctic (2:13); "Icepeople" Journalism (2:11); Arctic Adventurists (3:47); Encroaching Threats (1:48); Credits: Welcome to Svalbard (0:33);
Videorecording number
187639 Infobase
[187641]s Infobase
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Infobase, film distributor.
BBC (Firm)
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