Marines on snowmobiles help Santa in Alaska’s remote Arctic region

Santa hands a gift to a student in Alaska (Cpl Brendan Mullin/US Marine Corps via AP )

US marines on snowmobiles have helped Santa while delivering toys to boys and girls in Alaska’s Arctic.

Marines flew to Kotzebue, which is 549 miles north-west of Anchorage and 26 miles above the Arctic Circle, on a KC-130 operated by a squadron based in Okinawa, Japan.