Point Barrow
Sign in to savecape in Alaska State, United States of America
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Borough
- North Slope
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( AKST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- headland
- Named after
- John Barrow
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- North Slope Borough
- Time zone
- Alaska Time Zone
- Body of water
- Arctic Ocean
- Image
- Arctic Shore at Barrow Alaska.jpg
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- Commons category
- Point Barrow
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-00-00
- discoverer or inventor
- Carl Ben Eielson
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
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). It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at 71°23′20″N 156°28′45″W / 71.38889°N 156.47917°W / 71.38889; -156.47917 (Point Barrow), 1,122 nautical miles (1,291 mi; 2,078 km) south of the North Pole. (The northernmost point on the North American mainland, Murchison Promontory in Canada, is 40 miles (64 km) further north.)
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Point Barrow” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.