of this region it's almost six times the size of germany but this eternal ice is only home to around thirty thousand people. bang it's nine o'clock at night when pond in net comes into view a small brown spot in the endless white the approach is breathtaking very few settlements in the world are any flat the norm in this band. my. in june the sun doesn't set anymore and we quickly lose any sense of time children play on the streets in the middle of the night the rhythm of life no longer