Iceland Back to Track Soon

Just a heads up today, Sector 3.

The big cheeses at North Pole Flight Command today informed me that our temporary home here in Norway may soon close so we can move back to our original tracking location in Iceland.

Santa has authorized a team of engineers to confer again with Icelandic officials in making the move back. He wants to ensure it is safe.

Why do it?

There are contracts, plans and operational advantages to using Iceland as our Regional HQ in Sector 3. All of our plans all year long have centered on tracking Santa from Iceland. The conversion to another location, even one as close here in Norway, is complicated and problematic, especially with Santa’s flight now just a few weeks away.

While nothing definitive has been determined yet we wanted to let you know this could be happening and it could be soon.

I will try to keep you updated as I can.

Otherwise, there is not a lot of other news to report in Europe and Africa other than this: we are on track and reporting for Santa’s flight is going very well.

About this Elf: Elf Rolf Janssen

Elf Rolf is a native of Austria. As a young man he moved to Russia and was a refugee of that country in 1915 when he found his way to Santa’s employ. Skilled in carpentry, Rolf was given duties in Santa’s workshop where he worked for many years. Charged with building the first airplane Santa ever flew in 1927 — thanks to his wood working skills — Elf Rolf was transferred to the Research and Development Department where he served for many years as a sleigh designer and eventually as a flight test pilot.

Rolf took a departure from that work in the mid-1960s when he pursued a degree in computer science, a pioneering field for the North Pole. He returned in 1968 and for years served in data processing before being transferred to the North Pole Tracking and Flight Command Center as an IT specialist. He was instrumental in helping Santa to set up a network of satellites that have become the backbone of North Pole information systems to this day.