Amazon Quiz: Ukpeagvik, which means a place to hunt this birds, is the Inupiat name of the northernmost…?
Amazon Quiz (October 31): Ukpeagvik, which means a place to hunt this birds, is the Inupiat name of the nothernmost city of the US. Which Alaskan city is this?
Juneau
Anchorage
Adak
Barrow
Answer: Barrow
The ninth-most northern city in the world is Utqiagvik, which is also the northernmost city in the United States.
The Arctic Circle is about 320 miles to the north.
On November 18 or 19, the sun sets here, and it doesn’t rise again for 65 days.
Despite being the hub of the North Slope Borough’s economy, Utqiagvik is not connected to the rest of Alaska via road.
More over 4,000 people call this place home, and they primarily rely on fishing in the Arctic Ocean or surrounding rivers and lakes in addition to hunting whales, seals, polar bears, walrus, ducks, and caribou.
The Inupiat may have resided in this region as early as 500 AD, according to archaeological sites nearby.
The Chukchi and Beaufort seas converge at Point Barrow, a point nine kilometres from the city.
Former North Slope Borough Mayor Edward Itta has referred to Utqiagvik as “ground zero for climate-change science” because scientists claim that the Arctic is rising twice as quickly as the rest of the earth.
Only 120 days a year on average in Utqiagvik have highs above freezing, while the remaining 160 days of the year see temperatures at or below zero.
The 2011 Hollywood film “Big Miracle,” which is about an attempt to free three whales caught in sea ice, was filmed at Utqiagvik.
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