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Link: Los Angeles Times "Most days in Nome, you're not likely to run into anybody you didn't see at the Breakers Bar on Friday night. More than 500 roadless miles from Anchorage, rugged tundra and frigid Bering Sea waters have a way of discouraging visitors. So it was a big deal when the World, a 644-foot residential cruise ship with condos costing several million dollars apiece, dropped anchor during the summer for a two-day look-see. ... The record shrinking of the polar ice cap is turning the forbidding waters at the top of the world into important new shipping routes. Nome sees itself as the gateway to a newly accessible maritime frontier."