Kautokeino

To find my new home on a map, my mother would have to place her finger on the North Pole and trace a line through Svalbard and the frigid sea, down to the sixty-ninth parallel to a place called Kautokeino.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

To find my new home on a map, my mother would have to place her finger on the North Pole and trace a line through Svalbard and the frigid sea, down to the sixty-ninth parallel to a place called Kautokeino.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

In the fall, right before we moved to Kautokeino, William and I flew to England to see my sister and her husband for a few days.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

The first letter I get in Kautokeino arrives three months late:

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

The first letter I get in Kautokeino arrives three months late:

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

The summer before William and I moved to Kautokeino, I had been invited to come and speak at a conference on indigenous education.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

The summer before William and I moved to Kautokeino, I had been invited to come and speak at a conference on indigenous education.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

In the fall, right before we moved to Kautokeino, William and I flew to England to see my sister and her husband for a few days.

The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

There is also considerable spatial variability: the mean annual precipitation for Finnmark (1961 – 1990), for example, ranges from 325 mm at Kautokeino (inland) to 914 mm at Loppa (coast).

Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010

Likewise, the mean January temperature inland at Kautokeino (68º 58 'N) is approximately -16 ºC compared to approximately -35 ºC at Old Crow (67º 34' N) in Canada (both located at similar elevations).

Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway 2010