Denver Riggleman
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Alaska.
Greenland, 0.3 people per square mile.
Point three, you're talking about it's impossible to get to certain places in Greenland without an airplane.
And even then, the airplanes break down so often you can be stuck in an area in one of the settlements for weeks.
Not only that, dog sleds are still the best way to get around in a lot of these settlements because everything freezes.
The incredible thing about Nuuk here in Nuuk, Greenland, is that about a third to 40 percent of the population live here.
And you're like, oh, my gosh, it must be huge.
There's 21,000 people in this whole area.
21,000 in this entire area.
The roads end seven kilometers outside of town.
Think about what I'm telling people.
They just end.
They just end.
They end.
When you're talking about transportation, I took a boat two and a half hours to a settlement.
I think it was called Klishak or something like that.
You can see my pronunciation was so perfect.
I think it means like home of the salmon or something.
40 people live there off on winter.
On peak, it's 80 when they're fishing.