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...year from mid-April until June. The whales, which spend their entire lives in arctic waters, are migrating past Point Barrow during that time. Since George and his colleagues began recording whale numbers 34 years ago, their counts have increased...
...swimming after lunch, but the Arctic Ocean seems an awful place to test one's luck.We drove to the end of the road out Point Barrow. You can go farther with a 4-wheeler, but we didn't have those kinds of connections yet. On one side of the strip...
Seventy-five years ago this month, a Lockheed Orion Explorer airplane crashed in Point Barrow, Alaska. The one passenger, a rugged man originally from Oklahoma Indian Territory, died on impact along with the pilot. The...
...a measles epidemic. In 1949, the Navy reported that natural gas in commercial quantities had been discovered near Point Barrow. In the nation In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named general of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank. In...
...a measles epidemic. In 1949, the Navy reported that natural gas in commercial quantities had been discovered near Point Barrow. In the nation In 1866, Ulysses S. Grant was named general of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank. In...
...caribou and other wildlife roaming there and along the pipeline. And after seeing the coastal plain at Prudhoe and Point Barrow, I changed my mind about flying on Alaska Air over to Siberia. The coastal plain of Alaska or Siberia is not a desirable...
...John and Carol enjoyed a two month trip of traveling through Alaska in their fifth wheel last summer. The highlight of their trip was attending their 50th class reunion for Juneau High School. They traveled as far north as Point Barrow.
...Large numbers of polar bears have crowded into the Point Barrow area recently, and scientists are at a loss to explain...And tour groups that visit the whale bone piles at Point Barrow, 12 miles north of town, were seeing 40 to 50 bears...
...won't be made before next week. Erosion caused by fall storms has become an annual nightmare for coastal villages from Point Barrow to the Bering Strait, where wind-driven surf has been dissolving permafrost, destabilizing houses and destroying...
...year, wildlife was abundant, including polar bear, seal, walrus, and narwhal. The crew conferred with Natives at Point Barrow concerning the rise of sea level and melting permafrost and how the change has affected their whaling. The uncommon...