Point Barrow

Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of , 9 miles northeast of . It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at, 1,122 nautical miles south of the .
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  • Type: Cape
  • Description: cape in Alaska State, United States of America
  • Also known as: “Barrow Spit”, “Cape North”, “Noowooh”, “Noowook”, “Nowuk”, “Numuk”, and “Nuwuk”

Point Barrow

Latitude
71.38652° or 71° 23′ 12″ north
Longitude
-156.47414° or 156° 28′ 27″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US TBW
Open location code
C3359GPG+J8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 846344804
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­cape
Geo­Names ID
5880055
Wiki­data ID
Q1343019
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Point Barrow” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نقطة بارو”
  • Armenian: “Բարոուի հրվանդան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Barrou burnu”
  • Basque: “Barrow lurmuturra”
  • Belarusian: “Бараў”
  • Bengali: “ব্যারো বিন্দু”
  • Catalan: “Punta Barrow”
  • Cebuano: “Point Barrow”
  • Chinese: “Barrow Point”
  • Chinese: “巴罗角”
  • Chinese: “巴羅角”
  • Czech: “Barrow”
  • Czech: “Point Barrow”
  • Dutch: “Point Barrow”
  • Esperanto: “Point Barrow”
  • Estonian: “Barrow neem”
  • Estonian: “Barrow‘ neem”
  • Estonian: “Barrow’ neem”
  • Finnish: “Point Barrow”
  • French: “Point Barrow”
  • Galician: “Punta Barrow”
  • German: “Nuvuk”
  • German: “Point Barrow”
  • Hebrew: “פוינט בארו”
  • Indonesian: “Point Barrow”
  • Inupiaq: “Nuvuk”
  • Italian: “Point Barrow”
  • Italian: “Punta Barrow”
  • Japanese: “ヌヴク”
  • Japanese: “バロー岬”
  • Japanese: “ポイント・バロー”
  • Korean: “배로곶”
  • Latvian: “Barova rags”
  • Lithuanian: “Barou kyšulys”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Barrow Point”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapp Barrow”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Point Barrow”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Point Barrow”
  • Norwegian: “Point Barrow”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Poncha Barrow”
  • Persian: “پوینت بارو”
  • Polish: “Nuvuk”
  • Polish: “Point Barrow”
  • Polish: “Przylądek Barrow”
  • Portuguese: “Point Barrow”
  • Russian: “Барроу”
  • Russian: “Мыс Барроу”
  • Shona: “Nuvhuku”
  • Slovak: “Barrowov mys”
  • Slovenian: “Point Barrow”
  • Spanish: “Point Barrow”
  • Spanish: “Punta Barrow”
  • Swedish: “Point Barrow”
  • Turkish: “Point Barrow”
  • Ukrainian: “Мис Барроу”
  • Urdu: “پوائنٹ بیرو”

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