Inside eerie abandoned weather station above the magnetic north pole in Canada that is a frozen time capsule from the 1970s [Video]

09:13 EDT 04 May 2024, updated 09:13 EDT 04 May 2024

Gripped by a deep freeze for most of the year, a remote weather station in Canada remains eerily intact decades after its inhabitants departed, as I recently discovered on an expedition which led us into its clutches. 

Isachsen is located on the western shore of Ellef Ringnes Island in the territory of Nunavut in Canada and it was selected for its brutal weather patterns – deemed the worst in the country. 

The record low, which bit on March 16, 1956, was -65 °F (-53.9 °C), while in the summer months, the temperature just peeps above freezing before plunging down to bone-chilling depths again.

The far flung base operated from April 3, 1948, through September 19, 1978, and it was the third station in a joint initiative by the Canadian-American weather observation program.

I ended up landing at the base’s icy runway via a private plane charter, as I was taking …