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Northern region of Alaska
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Small planes, including ones with skis or pontoons, are the best way of accessing this remote and vast region. Most small towns have an airstrip or are located near a lake.
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a small Iñupiat village near a major archaeological site
Anaktuvuk Pass is a village of around 300 in the North Slope region of Arctic Alaska.
very small town, although an important stop with services on the Dalton Highway
town of oil operations at the northern end of Dalton Highway, just a few miles south of Arctic Ocean coast
Elim is a small town in Alaska (pop. 330), along the Iditarod Trail.
Golovin is a town in Alaska of about 150 people. It is situated on a narrow point separating the Golovnin Lagoon and Golovnin Bay.
tiny native settlement, gateway to Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Kotzebue (Inupiaq: Qikiqtaġruk) is a town of 3,200 people in Arctic Alaska. It's an important regional hub and a launching point for flights to remote Arctic wilderness reserves.
the major city on the Seward Peninsula with a population of about 4,000 people, about half of whom are Alaska natives. It is the transportation and commerce center for Northwest Alaska and the western terminus of the Iditarod Trail.
Shaktoolik is a very small village along Norton Sound. This community has been moved twice because of encroaching seas, a result of global warming that has melted a lot of Arctic ice.
small town between Nome and Council, along the Nome-Council Road and Iditarod Trail
Teller is a city near Nome in Arctic Alaska. It had a population of 237 in 2019, and is on the edge of a large bay, close to the Bering Strait.
large town along the Iditarod Trail and Norton Sound
the northernmost town in the United States
White Mountain is on the Fish River, on the Seward Peninsula in Alaska 60 miles east of Nome.
small town 3 miles off Dalton Highway, with several historical buildings
home to six wild and scenic rivers that offer opportunities for unparalleled wilderness experiences
the westernmost point of North America (Save for the Aleutian Islands) is a small island in the Bering Strait almost on the International Date Line
during the Ice Age the people of Beringia were separated
stretches 70 miles along the Chukchi Sea shoreline
ancient arctic sand dunes and a sub-arctic river that traverses the boreal forest; this park harbors archeological sites more than 10,000 years old, and supports small communities of inland Inupiat peoples
as one of North America's largest mountain-ringed river basins with an intact ecosystem, the Noatak River environs features some of the Arctic's finest arrays of plants and animals
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