If something exists in Pyramiden, then it is probably the northernmost example in the world.
-Jamie Lafferty, New York Times, May 17, 2021, on his visit to the Russian town of Pyramiden in Svalbard, 78.66°N
A spot on this globe photographed in an abandoned Russian school in Svalbard caught my eye. Just where the Nile River’s blue squiggle bending again downriver north is entered from the west by the dotted line of the Wadi al-Milk, where KhairAllah and I rode in from the desert and Dar al-Kabābīsh. Once, after telling him about the broadcast of Voice of the Whip on BBC television, I said, It is true Wallahi!, By God!, You are Mashhūr, Famous, in Lundun and Barīs and Moskū. Little did I then know it was even more true than that. KhairAllah was famous above the Arctic Circle.
©Jamie Lafferty