Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow).

Located north of the Arctic Circle, [7] it is one of the northernmost cities and towns in the world and the northernmost in the United States, with nearby Point Barrow as the country's northernmost point.

2021年9月26日 · The northernmost part of the United States is Point Barrow (also called Nuvuk). It is a headland on the Arctic coast around 9 miles from Utqiaġvik (which is also the northernmost settlement in the United States).

2012年8月13日 · Point Barrow, a headland nine miles from town, is where the Chukchi and Beaufort seas meet. Scientists say the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta has called Utqiagvik “ground zero for climate-change science.”

Point Barrow, northernmost point of Alaska, U.S., situated on the Arctic Ocean. Archaeological evidence dates human habitation (by Inupiaq Eskimos) in the area from about 500 ce. The headland was explored in 1826 by Frederick W. Beechey and named for Sir John Barrow, British promoter of Arctic

2019年9月7日 · Barrow lies on the Arctic Ocean and its peninsula, Point Barrow, is the northernmost land in the United States. There are walruses, beluga whales and polar bears. It is so different than the lower 48.

Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska, 9 miles northeast of Utqiagvik. It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at, 1,122 nautical miles south of the North Pole .

2023年6月21日 · Point Barrow was the site of a U.S. Navy Arctic research station from the 1940s until the 1980s, when the station was closed. The area has huge oil and gas deposits and is the northernmost point of the vast National Petroleum Reserve. Barrow was incorporated as …

2024年2月19日 · Point Barrow is a spit that extends northeast from the mainland for 4 miles (6.4 km) into the Arctic Ocean forming Elson Lagoon to the southeast, about 150 miles (242 km) northwest of Nuiqsut and 9.8 miles (16 km) northeast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska.

Between Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, northernmost point in the United States, Arcitic Plain.