User:Daniel Evert Lambert/sandbox

Within the arctic circle a unique culture exists,determined by the environment.The arctic environment influences the minds,the way of thinking of the people who have lived in that environment for as little a length of time as one full year.Why?The sun is always visible,day and night,year round,all year round.During the arctic winters,the sun appears in a pre-dawn condition.Remembering the difference between a day and a year makes one think,and instead of saying "where is the moon",someone might comment "what is a moon".I do not recall seeing the moon when I was posted in the arctic. Alaska {USA},Canada,Greenland{Denmark},Iceland,Norway,Sweden,Finland,andSiberia {Russia} are all,to some extent.within the arctic circle. The different kinds of money in use for business are the dollar {US and Canada},the krone {Greenland and Denmark,Iceland,and Norway},the krona {Sweden},the euro {Finland},and the rubel {Siberia}. Murmask,Siberia is the city in the arctic which has the largest human population,about 1 million,so the rubel might be the most popular form of currency in the arctic.The rubel is accompanied with only one other denomination of money,the kopek.A rubel is worth only a few cents in US money,and a kopek is a fraction of a rubel. If using money for a gauge of the standard of living in the arctic,it might appear to some people that it would be inexpensive to live there.