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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 ...
A resident of the town formerly known as Barrow, Alaska, rides her motorcycle along an Arctic Ocean beach in 2005. The town is now officially called Utqiagvik, its Inupiaq name.
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 ...
Aleksandar Joksic, 25, co-owner of East Coast Pizzeria in Barrow, Alaska, on his delivery vehicle, as told to A.J. Baime: Barrow is the most northern town in the U.S., above the Arctic Circle ...
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 ...
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 ...
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: Jan ...
At 12:54pm local time Friday, the sun will rise in Barrow, Alaska. Thirty-six minutes later, it will set—and won't be seen again there until Jan. 22. But a two-month-long "polar night" is no ...
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 northernmost town in the US, Utqiaġvik, Alaska, experiences darkness from November to January every year. Here's what life is like 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle.