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Originally Posted by grega94
And there are also places such as Tiksi which also manages to have 4,556 as of 2016 in a tundra climate, though the population is falling fast. However there are other subarctic climate cities that have very fast growth rates since 2010.
Most subpolar communities are set up due to access to mineral or petroleum extraction, as otherwise they are not cost effective.
Well for any city/settlement to exist there needs to be some kind of economic driver, and even if it's extraction of mineral wealth that doesn't make it any less of a city. Yakutsk has a very long history being founded in 1632 just two years after Boston was founded. Now of course Yakutsk didn't take off until the 1800s when gold deposits were found. Yakutsk had 2,800 people in 1856, 10,558 in 1926, 52,882 people in 1939, 107,617 in 1970, 152,368 in 1979, 210,642 in 2002, 255,800 in 2008 and 303,836 in 2016.
so surely if a small sized city/ large town can exist in the middle of Yakutia then surely a small fishing town of just 5,000 people could theoretically exist in the Milford sound, maybe something along the lines of Unalaska?
Yeah there has to be a huge monetary incentive to want to move to Yakutsk and Norilsk. I think I can safely say that nobody moves there for the climate. I wouldn't be surprised if the local wages in these cities are several times higher than the Russian average.
Northely quadrant airflows. Does that mean that winds tend to come from the south and head north in heavy rain days? It seems to me that that would mean that temperatures in heavy rainfall would be below average.
No, the other way around, is the "from" direction.
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Yeah there has to be a huge monetary incentive to want to move to Yakutsk and Norilsk. I think I can safely say that nobody moves there for the climate. I wouldn't be surprised if the local wages in these cities are several times higher than the Russian average.
Exactly, that's why civilization (not counting Inuit settlements) in Canada only goes up to the Dfb/Dfc border, places like Ft McMurray for example are generally the end of the paved road headed poleward. And Ft McMurray exists because of the Athabaskan Tar Sands (petroleum).
Even here in the states, places like Leadville and Fairplay are mining communities
The final point being if Milford Sound doesn't have a valuable natural resource that can be extracted and sold, then civilization wouldn't be possible
Say that Milford Sound had enough room for a town of maybe 5000 people. Do you think that the climate would be too much of a turn off for enough people to settle at the tip of Milford Sound?
While Milford Sound has a crazy amount of rain, the temperatures and rain days aren't too bad.
Doesn't look any less inhabitable than many places. These days, very few areas are perfect, and few if any are able to be self sufficient.
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