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Santa Claus has been running his operation remotely for a long time. The North Pole is nothing if not remote — or at least seems that way to most of us living far south of it. If you do a polar projection, however, as Yale University “radical cartographer” Bill Rankin has done, you see that the North Pole is actually pretty centrally located. The world’s major trade routes encircle it like, well, Santa’s belt. If your business is the logistics of gift delivery, the North Pole may actually be a good place to run it from, except for the heating bills.
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