Talk:Northernmost cities and towns

Nunavut

The eleven most northerly communities in Nunavut were missing from the list of most northerly communities. I added them.

Alert, Nunavut and Eureka, Nunavut are the most northerly settlements. But they are largely or completely occupied by military and scientific personnel -- not permanent residents, so I am figuring they don't count as "communities". Geo Swan (talk) 00:18, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But are they cities or towns?Karriuss (talk) 13:30, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I removed them because they are hamlets, and not cities or towns. See Northernmost settlements Karriuss (talk) 10:07, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Svalbard towns

Longyearbyen and Barentsburg are both more northerly than Qaanaaq, I think. I don't know how to add them nicely to the table, so perhaps someone else could add them. 82.139.81.55 (talk) 01:27, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I just scrolled down and noticed that Longyearbyen does appear in the article, but doesn't have city/town status. What exactly does this mean? Longyearbyen has well over three times as many inhabitants as Qaanaaq and the Longyearbyen article calls it "one of the most northerly towns". 82.139.81.55 (talk) 01:30, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

See List of towns in Norway Karriuss (talk) 10:07, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How useful is a list of northernmost towns that does not use a consistent definition of the word town? What useful information does this list add that northernmost settlements does not already have? The only additional information in this article is the "town/city status" of the settlement, which means different things for different settlements. If this information does have some use, wouldn't it be much less redundant to simply add a "town/city status" column to northernmost settlements? I'm not sure how to go about proposing a merge, but it might be nice to make this consistent with southernmost settlements 82.139.81.44 (talk) 11:50, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]