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Since the North Pole is actually in shifting ice in the Arctic Ocean, the complex oats. Temperature: around -30C, but can dip colder than -42C.
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QMI Agency recently spent time with reclusive do-gooder Santa Claus at his isolated North Pole retreat. It was a discreet mission to uncover all we could about the secretive North Pole facilities and some little-known facts about the jolly old man himself.
Since time zones are dictated by longitude, clocks at Santas Village always stay at midnight.
Chocolate factory
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They also track polar bears, after the incident centuries ago with Merv the reindeer that went out to pee, but never came back. Elves report to Mrs. Claus, rather than directly to the big guy.
A special security detail keeps track of Russian manned ice-stations set up near the North Pole, as well as tourists who y in. The village remains shielded through unspecied technology that involves mirrors and popcorn. The complex was once home to 1,500 elves, but thanks to outsourcing and robotics, only 22 are now needed for toy production.
The North Pole was not his rst choice for a secret factory lair. He originally set up shop in Florida, but found the elves kept calling in sick to go surng.
Santas village is actually more like an aircraft carrier. Its one facility thats all connected under the ice. The tiny shops and stables above are mainly just for show and house any operations that do not need to be kept secret.
Sources: Thane Burnett
Radar station
Factory oor
And additional 85 elves look after running the facility, tending to Santa and Mrs. Claus and operating the vast computer systems. All eleves are required to have a PHD (Premium Holiday Degree). About 150,000 litres of hot chocolate is consumed each year.
Green house
Animal quarters
Hall of records to track incidents of good and bad in about 91.8 million homes
SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY LINDSAY OUELLETTE/QMI AGENCY