See pictures of first refugees to reach the Arctic Circle
A group of refugees from countries including Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are seeing their first ever snow after being sent to a resort town located in Sweden’s northern tip well above the Arctic Circle. Riksgränsen is now home to some 600 people, 100 of whom are children, who fled violence in their home countries.
In October 2015, while Sweden was seeing the entry of around 10,000 refugees a week, government officials made a deal with the resort’s CEO to temporally put up the asylum seekers, National Geographic reported on Monday.
All of the refugees had chosen to stay in Sweden but probably never expected to end up living so far into the Arctic, where they will mostly live in total darkness in temperatures below -20 degrees Celsius.
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