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ON THE EDGE OF THE ARCTIC

The first thing visitors to Churchill tend to notice is how remote it is. No roads connect this town on the shore of Hudson Bay to the rest of the world — a two-hour flight or two-day train ride from Winnipeg are the only ways in. But its isolated location

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