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...permanently frozen from a few inches below the surface to a depth of 1,300 ft. Gas lines snake through the settlement resting on half-sections of 55-gal. oil drums; at intersections, the pipe is framed in wood and runs overhead on gateways that look like crude Japanese torii. The impenetrable ground also makes sanitation a problem. Although the U.S. Public Health Service has promised to help with sewers and a water system some time in the future, Barrow residents usually dump solid wastes -encased in the ubiquitous 55-gal. drums-near the Naval Lab. In the summer, however...
Many views featured richly colored Shinto shrines, and their gates--the so-called torii, one of the simplest yet most highly artistic structural designs ever conceived...
...torii is spoken of as though it were Buddhist, but it is Shinto...