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The sun will set in Barrow, Alaska, on Friday. And it won't rise again until Jan. 22, 2017. Located about 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, the USA's northernmost city endures about two ...
America’s northernmost city of Barrow, Alaska is powering through a long period of darkness. The sun in Barrow set earlier this month on Nov. 18, and it will not rise again until next year ...
Barrow, Alaska just welcomed a long-lost guest: a sunrise. The last time the northernmost town in the U.S. witnessed that phenomenon was on Nov. 23 – 68 days earlier. But the sun showed up over ...
The city of Utqiagvik, Alaska, just plunged into darkness for the next two months.Utqiagvik, formerly known as Barrow, sits at the edge of the Arctic Ocean, about 330 miles north of the Arctic ...
In October, the people of the Alaskan town formerly known as Barrow, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, voted to restore its indigenous name, Utqiagvik. Zachariah Hughes of Alaska Public Media ...
Barrow, Alaska, woke Thursday to darkness and a new name. Actually, Utqiaġvik is not so much a new name as merely different from the one the coastal municipality had Wednesday. By late Thursday ...
Above: An aerial image of Barrow (Utqiagvik), Alaska. Barrow is located at a latitude of 71°17’26”, about 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Every month since December 2015 the temperature ...
Utqiaġvik, known as Barrow until 2016, is a remote town at the tip of Alaska, surrounded by wilderness tundra and not accessible by road. The average high temperature remains below zero from ...