Sixty Degrees North (33 page)
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Authors: Malachy Tallack
River Neva
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Rocky Mountains
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.
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Roost, The
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Rostral Columns, St Petersburg
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Rudbeck, Olof
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collapse of Soviet Union
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failed uprising of 1825
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Russian Academy of Sciences
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Russian-American Company
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Russian Museum, St Petersburg
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Russian River
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St Bridget
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St Erik (King Erik Jedvardsson)
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St Herman
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St Isaac, Cathedral of (St Petersburg)
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St Isodore, Church of (Fort Smith, Canada)
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St Kilda
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St Nicholas, Old Believer's Church of (St Petersburg)
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St Paul
(ship)
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St Peter and St Paul, Cathedral of (St Petersburg)
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St Petersburg
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Aleksanderovskiy Park
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Bronze Horseman statue
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Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan
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Cathedral of St Isaac
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Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul
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Decembrists' Square
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Finland Station
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haphazard architecture of
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Hermitage Museum
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known as Leningrad
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known as Petrograd
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Nevsky Prospekt
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Old Believers Church of St Nicholas
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Palace Square
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River Neva
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Rostral Columns
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Russian Museum
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Uprising Square
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Winter Palace
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see also
Leningrad and Petrograd
Sakha people
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Salt River
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Sanders, Scott Russell
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Sandvikvåg
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Saqqaq people
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Saskatchewan
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saunas
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Scalloway
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Scandinavian crime writing
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Scott, Captain Robert Falcon
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sea ice
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seals
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Seat of Mandrup
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Selbjorn
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Self, Will
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selkies (seal people)
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Seward
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Shalamov, Varlam
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Sheep Pund
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Shetland
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called Thule by Ptolemy
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early peoples of
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âhillfolk' (
trows
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importance of peat
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selkies, stories of
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severe gales in
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whaling industry
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windfarms on
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âShetland Bus'
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Shetland Times
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Shirreff, John
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Shostakovich, Dmitri
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Sibelius, Jean
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gold mining in
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uranium mining in
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siege of Leningrad, 941
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Sigurd o'Gord
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sila
(life force), concept of
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sisu
(perseverance), concept of
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skraelings
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Slave Lake
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Slave River
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Smith's Landing (later Fort Fitzgerald)
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Snyder, Gary
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Soini, Timo
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Solan IV
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Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
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South Georgia
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South Pole
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Soviet Union
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Spruce Island
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Stang, Fabian
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Statoil
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Stenskov, Bolethe
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Stokell, Sam
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Stolmen
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Stoltenber, Jens
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storis
(pack ice)
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Stroganov Palace, St Petersburg
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Sturluson, Snorri
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Sumburgh Head
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swans
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Sweden
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member of the EU
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occupying Finland
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Protestant reformation in
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xenophobic politics in
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Swedenborg, Emmanuel
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Swedish People's Party
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Tall, Deborah
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Tallinn
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Tammisaari â
see
Ekenäs
Thomson, Tom
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Thor
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Thule (name for Shetland)
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Thule people
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tirricks
â
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arctic terns
Tree of Knowledge
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trows
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True Finns group
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Turku
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unicorns â
see
narwhal
Gamla (Old) Uppsala
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Uprising Square, St Petersburg
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Utøya
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VÃ¥ge
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Vancouver
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Viking people
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Viking Ship Museum, Oslo
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Vitebsky, Piers
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Volkov, Mikhail
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von Linne, Carl (Linnaeus)
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Wanderers, The
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Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
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West, Rebecca
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Western Settlement (Greenland)
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whales
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windfarms
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Winnipeg
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Winter Palace, St Petersburg
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wolves
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Wood Buffalo National Park
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Yelagin Island
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Yggdrassil (the World Tree)
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Yngling dynasty
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Yukaghir people
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Yukon Territory
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Acknowledgements
Peter Davidson offered me encouragement when all I had was an idea. He read the earliest chapters and patiently guided me in the right direction. Without his kindness this book would probably never have been written.
During my travels the following people were particularly helpful and hospitable: Rie Oldenburg in Narsaq; Hilary LeRoy-Gauthier, Shawn Bell and Sam Stokell in Fort Smith; Eva Meyer and Maria Jarlsdotter Enckell in Mariehamn; and especially Jeff and Cassandra Raun in Anchorage.
Numerous friends assisted me in one way or another, but Jordan Ogg, Amy Liptrot, Martin MacInnes, Rob Duncan, Ruth Cockshott and Charlene Storey all deserve particular mention. So too do my friends at Nice 'n' Sleazy's acoustic night in Glasgow, who helped me through the last months of writing with their fine company and songs.
Thanks to my agent, Jenny Brown; to Esther Woolfson for her invaluable input; to Gavin Francis; to my editor, Tom Johnstone; and to everyone at Polygon/Birlinn. Thanks also to Creative Scotland, the Scottish Book Trust, Emergents, Shetland Arts and the Arts Trust of Scotland.
I began writing this book while living in Fair Isle. My love for that place and that community will last a lifetime, as will my gratitude towards people there. I felt truly at home on the isle, and still do, in a way that I have never done anywhere else; and my understanding of that crucial word â home â which is at the heart of this book, was shaped by my time there.
Thanks, finally, to my family, for putting up with me.
Author's Note
Three people quoted in this book were unaware that our conversations might be published. I have therefore changed their names.
Greenland: drift ice near Nanortalik.
