The Klondike gold rush swept almost the entire world from 1896 onwards and caused a run on the far north of Canada and Alaska, which in the end brought the hoped-for fortune to only a few. Thousands died of cold, hunger, exhaustion or were killed. Images: Library and...
Reindeer or caribou inhabit only the northern hemisphere. They live circumpolar in summer in the tundra and in winter in the taiga. Photo: Stefan Leimer With the end of the last ice age 10,000 years ago, first human settlements were established in Norway. The retreat...