Point Barrow
Sign in to savecape in Alaska State, United States of America
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- Country
- United States
- State
- Alaska
- Borough
- North Slope
- Time zone
- UTC-9 ( AKST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-8 (AKDT)
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- Arctic Shore at Barrow Alaska.jpg
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- Point Barrow
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-00-00
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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.)
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