So there I was, minding my own business, looking at samples of Google Maps’ “Street View” to pique my eight-year-old niece’s interest…

And I wound up at the Deadhorse, Alaska airport. It’s not really remarkable — just a remote stretch of land, mostly. Except for two things: one is that it’s about as far north as the roaming Google-street-view cameras have been, at least in the United States.

The other is that Google sent TWO street cameras to film this remote stretch of midnight sun! Can you say overkill? This isn’t downtown Berlin, or Times Square, or Picadilly Circus, or even the outskirts of Punxatawney. Maybe they sent two in case there was an automotive breakdown so one driver could carry the other home? Or are they supposed to be checking up on each other?