AN ISOLATED ice military base has been named as the setting for one of the most important superpower summits of our times.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will sit down "one-on-one" at the Elmendorf-Richardson base in Alaska on Friday - the Russian's chance to prove he wants peace .

The base, near Anchorage, is bristling with troops from the US Air Force, Army , Navy and Marine Corps - as well as National Guardsmen and Reserves.

In all, over 32,000 military personnel and their families live there - ten percent of the population of Anchorage, Alaska 's largest city - alongside grizzly bears, moose and wolves.

It played a "particularly important" role in defending the US against the Soviet Union during the cold war, according to the Library of Congress.

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