Stunning Northern Lights from last night/early morning in North Pole, Alaska, where Santa Claus (seriously, I'm not kidding) lives. Photos by Maraya Kraft. #Alaska #AlaskaWinter #NorthernLights
@reesecommabill That is correct! It's the name of a small city right before you get to Fairbanks. It's kind of neat. There's the Santa Claus House, Santa Claus (the guy literally legally changed his name) and all the Christmas ornaments you can imagine.
@Lizette603_23 "First things first: Yes, Santa Claus is his legal name. It’s on his government identification, and the mail that arrives at his apartment.
A long time ago, he was called Thomas O’Connor. He doesn’t answer to that name anymore. If someone shouted it in the North Pole Safeway, “I wouldn’t even turn my head,” he says.
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in reply to MicheleV_AK • • •Great shots, but the REAL north pole is in Canada :D
"the North Geomagnetic Pole is currently located near 80.8 degrees north by 72.7 degrees west, in Ellesmere Island, Canada."
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"First things first: Yes, Santa Claus is his legal name. It’s on his government identification, and the mail that arrives at his apartment.
A long time ago, he was called Thomas O’Connor. He doesn’t answer to that name anymore. If someone shouted it in the North Pole Safeway, “I wouldn’t even turn my head,” he says.
This Santa Claus is a 73-year-old medical-marijuana-using, Bernie-supporting vegetarian monk who lives at the poverty line, does not drive and thinks — truth be told — that Christmas is a “crass commercial secular spectacle.”
https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2020/12/15/in-north-pole-alaska-santa-claus-is-a-bastion-of-blue-on-a-city-council-as-red-as-rudolphs-nose/
In North Pole, Alaska, Santa Claus is a bastion of blue on a city council as red as Rudolph’s nose
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in reply to MicheleV_AK • •He has the perfect look for that name
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in reply to MicheleV_AK • •Wow. Amazing