Kiruna: The Swedish Town That Has to Pick Up and Move Two Miles East
Wikimedia Commons//CC BY - SA 3.0 Delaware Kiruna , the northernmost town in Sweden , is dependent on the mine that employs most of its 18,200 resident . Because the smoothing iron ore is tend out , the townspeople were forced to determine if they wanted to risk staying as the mine was dug deeply — likely leaving the earth too unstable to hold building — or move . With Brobdingnagian fissures already appearing around the metropolis , they adjudicate to move , and originally this year , the intact town set up the improbably toilsome process of movingtwo Admiralty mile east ....