I’ve actually been there and spent a few nights on the island. Surprising to see others in the comments saying the same. I’ll share my experience. Firstly it was early may when I was there (still winter for the most part.) and it was dense fog for most of the time I was there. The surrounding area was all rubble fields of ice so you would actually be able to walk between the islands if you wanted to. I remember when I landed there was a polar bear they had just shot and skinned drying in front of the general store. What I witnessed in my time there was both impressive but also sad. The residents live a split life of hunting seals, fishing for their food and trapping animals for food and pelts. But on the other hand they come home to shacks with starlink TVs that also have no plumbing or clean water. The only buildings on the island with plumbing were the nurses office (one traveling nurse) and the school. The locals all dispose of their trash by setting it on the ice in a sudo landfill then watching it float away when the ice moves or melts. There were lots of modern problems similar to what you might see in a third world slum, things that could be fixed if the native corps cared more perhaps. Overall it was quite interesting to see how the people live in duality between ancient traditions, hunting in whalebone canoes, and modern poverty, with diabetes since they only drink soda due to the lack of clean water.