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Brightly coloured apartment blocks with murals of native Chukchi in the town of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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Modern houses built on stilts in the Yupik Eskimo village of New Chaplino. Chukotskiy Peninsula, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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Soil terraces caused by the action of thawing, called Solifluction. Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1994
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Brightly coloured apartment blocks with murals of native Chukchi in the town of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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House on a raised frame to stop it sinking into the tundra. Nome. Alaska. 1997
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Brightly coloured apartment blocks in the town of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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Brightly coloured apartment blocks in the town of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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Brightly coloured apartment blocks in the town of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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Brightly coloured apartment block with a whale tail mural in the town of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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Brightly coloured apartment block with a mural of a native Chukchi woman in the town of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2010
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Modern Arctic homes built on piles driven into the permafrost at Iqaluit. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Modern Arctic homes built on piles driven into the permafrost at Iqaluit. Nunavut, Canada. 2008
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Wooden buildings raised above the permafrost, as are the covered utility pipes at Barentsburg, Spitsbergen. Norway.
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Wooden buildings raised above the permafrost, as are the covered utility pipes at Barentsburg, Spitsbergen. Norway.
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Brightly coloured apartment blocks in the centre of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
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Brightly coloured apartment blocks in the centre of Anadyr. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
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Residents of the native village of Uelen walking past the newly built Canadian style houses. Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. 2004
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Modern housing units in the Nunavut capital, Iqaluit. They are on legs or stilts because of the permafrost. Baffin Island, Canada. 2002
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Modern housing units in the Nunavut capital, Iqaluit. They are on legs or stilts because of the permafrost. Baffin Island, Canada. 2002
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Insulated ducting carrying power and water to buildings. The BP headquarters building is on legs that stop it sinking into the premafrost. Prudhoe Bay Oilfields, Alaska. 1989
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The action of permafrost, thawing & freezing, causes houses to sink. Irkutsk. Siberia. 1979
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Buildings in Dawson slump together where their footings have sunk into the permafrost. Yukon. Canada.
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House on a raised frame to stop it sinking into the tundra. Nome. Alaska. 1997
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