Point Barrow
Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska, 9 miles northeast of Utqiagvik. It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at, 1,122 nautical miles south of the North Pole.
- Cape
- …lies at an elevation of 10 feet (3 metres)
- Description: cape in Alaska State, United States of America
- Also known as“Barrow Spit”“Cape North”“Noowooh”“Noowook”“Nowuk”“Numuk”“Nuwuk”
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Latitude
71.38652° or 71° 23′ 12″ north
Longitude
-156.47414° or 156° 28′ 27″ west
UN/LOCODE
US TBW
Open location code
C3359GPG+J8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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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: “巴罗角”
- Chinese: “巴羅角”
- Czech: “Barrow”
- Czech: “Point Barrow”
- Dutch: “Point Barrow”
- Esperanto: “Point Barrow”
- 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: “Barrowov rt”
- Slovenian: “Point Barrow”
- Slovenian: “rt Barrow”
- Spanish: “Point Barrow”
- Spanish: “Punta Barrow”
- Swedish: “Point Barrow”
- Turkish: “Point Barrow”
- Ukrainian: “Мис Барроу”
- Urdu: “پوائنٹ بیرو”
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