“On my child’s small globe of the world there is only one town marked on the north coast of Siberia: Nordwik. It stands a gentle twirl across from Moscow, and half an inch from the white expanse of the polar ice-cap. Nordwik, however, no longer exists. When I went in search of it for a BBC film on the Siberian prison camps, I found nothing but a couple of rusting hulks and a main street of deserted and decrepit wooden huts. Nobody has lived there for almost half a century. Its presence on a modern children’s globe is a tribute to the American map-makers who, I suspect unknowingly, have preserved for our children the outline of Stalin’s Gulag.” (Angus Macqueen)

Dit Nordwik ligt bij de Nordwik Bokhta, zeg maar ‘De Noordwijker Bocht’ in Siberië. Er is nog een ander Nordwik, in Noorwegen in de buurt van Trondheim en als je deze 2 Nordwikken wilt verbinden met Noordwijk in Holland, dan krijg je vrijwel een rechte lijn.