Norway · Eastern Europe
Remote Settlement
Longyearbyen is strongest on Population Capacity 9/10 — Longyearbyen is an established settlement with extensive housing, school/community services, utilities, hospital/emergency support and a population system measured in the thousands rather than tens. The fixed twenty-person group has exceptional physical and functional headroom even without counting Ny-Ålesund as part of the Base.. Its clearest scored constraint is Defensibility 2/10 — Longyearbyen is a distributed ordinary settlement of roads, homes and public buildings, not a walled or hardened compound. Individual buildings can be secured and valley terrain limits some movement, but twenty people cannot create a reliable town-wide defended perimeter without abandoning most of the canonical Base. Arctic remoteness is deliberately excluded from this score..
- Overall
- 5.7/10
- Defensibility
- 2/10
- Isolation
- 8/10
- Sustainability
- 7/10