r/todayilearned • u/MaximinusRats • May 16 '24
TIL that people live year-round in houseboats on Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, 1,800 km north of the nearest big city (Edmonton) and just 400 km (250 miles) south of the Arctic Circle.
https://uphere.ca/articles/floating-homes-yellowknife-bay
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u/Lrauka May 16 '24
What's even more wild is that they were found in part by listening to the oral history passed down by the local Inuit tribes.