The world’s northernmost automatic teller machine is at Longyearbyen, Norway (78°13’N 15°33’E).
The southernmost is at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (77°51’S 166°40’E).
Month: November 2006
The Maine Penny
Digging in an old Indian settlement in 1957, Maine archaeologists turned up a silver penny that had been minted in Norway between 1065 and 1080 A.D.
That means either that ancient Norse had visited the region … or that the natives had quite an extensive trade network. An arctic Eskimo cutting tool was found at the same site.