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City in Alaska, United States
Photo: Swanson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Kaktovik (also known as Barter Island) is a village of just under three hundred people on the Beaufort Sea in Arctic Alaska's North Slope Borough.
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Airport pickup van (with advance notice), motel-style rooms with TV/VCR, dining room with three meals daily.
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Barter Island · Regional · BTI
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