What is the Northernmost City in the World?

-- M.G.,Cambridge A. When you say "city," we assume you mean a place ofimportance. In that case, the answer would be Murmansk, the SovietUnion's bustling port city on the Barents Sea. With a population ofabout 385,000, it is ... ASK THE GLOBE Jan 06, 1987 ... Q. What are the two largest cities in the United States interms of area? -- J.C., Dracut A. According to the geography division of the federal Bureauof the Census, Anchorage, Alaska, has an area of 1,732 squaremiles. Jacksonville, Fla., is a distant second with 760 ... ASK THE GLOBE Jan 06, 1987 ... Q. What is the present population of the United States andwhat percentage of the population is black? -- M.C., Waltham A. Latest figures released by the Bureau of the Census are forJan. 1, 1986, and put the estimated resident population of theUnited States at 239.4 million -- ... JUDGE ORDERS B&M TO PROVIDE COMMUTER DISPATCH SERVICE Jan 06, 1987; John H. Kennedy, Globe Staff ... A judge yesterday ordered the Boston & Maine railroad ...  more

If you ever wanted to spend some time in a city as far away as possible from the rest of the world, you couldn't find many more remote towns than Hammerfest. This city lies on the north coast of Norway, on the Arctic Ocean. It's the most northerly town of any size in Europe. In fact, Hammerfest is farther north than part of Greenland and almost all of Canada and Alaska! But the weather in Hammerfest isn't nearly so cold as you might expect. Even in January, the temperatures there are usually in the 20s, while the winter weather in northern Alaska and Canada is almost always extremely cold. And there's plenty of sunshine in Hammerfest, at least in the summer. The sun doesn't set in the city from May 13 until July 29. But the sun doesn't appear at all from mid-November until late January! In some ways, the weather is worse in another Norwegian city, Bergen, which lies about 800 miles to the south of Hammerfest. In a recent year, Bergen received more rain than any city in Europe, about ...  more