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Another Bering question.

 
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alexlebrit
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:18 pm    Post subject: Another Bering question. Reply with quote

But unlike the others, not to do with crossing it on rollerskates in a duck suit or anything impractical.

I was in fact looking at a map of far eastern Siberia, and noticed that there are quete a few "towns" all along the coastline. And it made me think, why are these towns here? what do the people who live there do? how do supplies get to these towns when there are no roads?

Does anyone know the answers?
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CHeburashka
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Joined: 23 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

In general people tend to live near the coast. Take a worldmap and look at the concentrations of settlements. The world's largest economical zones are the borders of the Atlantic and Pacific ocean on the northern hemisphere.

As for those people: i bet quite some of them are in fishing..?
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Keeper
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Joined: 28 May 2005
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Location: Russia

PostPosted: Tue Apr 04, 2006 10:39 am    Post subject: Re: Another Bering question. Reply with quote

alexlebrit wrote:

And it made me think, why are these towns here?

See the post before Smile

alexlebrit wrote:

what do the people who live there do?

hm, what do they do? They just live there, as other people anywhere

alexlebrit wrote:

how do supplies get to these towns when there are no roads?

By railway if there is any around there, by air if the weather is good.
Or they wait till the weather is good.
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CruisingRam
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Location: Anchorage Alaska

PostPosted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 2:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, interesting question- here in Alaska, the settlements pretty much mirror the settlements in Russia location wise- and, in fact, prior to Glasnost- they were families forced to seperate for around 70 years- but not so much as either goverment thought- they frequently ran into each other out on the icefloes around the Diomedes.

On the coast of Alaska, the coast you see there is the best place to get away from mosquitoes in the summer, and then the natives would migrate inland during the winter- when the white goverments of Czarist Russia and America started to really turn thier attention to these areas- they put a stop to alot of the nomadism, adn most were forced to settle by the coast- where shipping could reach them for the most part.
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