Arctic Alaska

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Utqiagvik

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Utqiaġvik is a city that is 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle on the Arctic Ocean in Arctic Alaska. The city holds the distinction of being the northernmost settlement in the United States, and the northernmost settlement on the North American mainland.

Nome

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Nome is a city in the Arctic region of Alaska. It is a town of about 4,000 people, about half of whom are Alaska Natives. It is the transportation and commerce center for Northwest Alaska. It is also the western terminus of the Iditarod Trail.

Kotzebue

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Kotzebue 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.

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Gates of the Arctic National Park

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Gates of the Arctic National Park is a national park in Northern Alaska. It is the northernmost US national park, lying entirely north of the Arctic Circle, and the second largest—at 13,238 sq mi it is roughly the size of Switzerland or Maryland!

Kaktovik

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Kaktovik is a village of just under three hundred people on the Beaufort Sea in Arctic Alaska's North Slope Borough.

Unalakleet

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Unalakleet is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States, in the western part of the state. As of the 2020 census, Unalakleet had a population of 765.

Anaktuvuk Pass

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Anaktuvuk Pass is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. It is located in the middle of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. The population was 425 at the 2020 census, up from 324 as of the 2010 census.

Ambler

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Ambler, also known by its Inupiaq name Ivisaappaat, is a small but vibrant community in Arctic Alaska. It is rich in culture and history on the north bank of the Kobuk River, near the confluence of the Ambler and the Kobuk Rivers.

Teller

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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.

Golovin

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Golovin is a town in Alaska of about 150 people. It is situated on a narrow point separating the Golovnin Lagoon and Golovnin Bay.

Elim

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Elim is a city in Nome Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Elim had a population of 366.

Little Diomede

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Little Diomede is an island in the Bering Strait. It is part of the Arctic Alaska region but below the Arctic Circle.

Kobuk Valley National Park

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Kobuk Valley National Park is a remote, little-visited national park in Arctic Alaska, known for its wilderness, sand dunes, and caribou migrations.

Coldfoot

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Coldfoot is a census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 34 at the 2020 census. It is said that the name was derived from travelers getting "cold feet" about making the 240-some-mile journey north to Deadhorse.

Wiseman

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Wiseman is a census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The full time resident population is 12 as of 2022. Wiseman is a small mining community along the Middle Fork Koyukuk River in the Brooks Range.

Deadhorse

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Deadhorse is a town 10 miles from Prudhoe Bay and the Arctic Ocean in Arctic Alaska at the end of the Dalton Highway.

Bering Land Bridge National Preserve

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The Bering Land Bridge National Preserve is a preserve in Arctic Alaska. The preserve, which is crossed by the Continental Divide, is dotted with lava fields, tundra, and crossed by the Arctic Circle.

Noatak National Preserve

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Noatak National Preserve is a very remote national preserve in remote Arctic Alaska. There are no roads nor facilities in the park, making it one of the most difficult-to-get-to destinations in the United States of America.

Solomon

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Solomon is an unincorporated community in the Nome Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, the population was zero, down from four in 2000.

Cape Krusenstern National Monument

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Cape Krusenstern National Monument is 650,000 acres of remote Arctic wilderness in Arctic Alaska. A coastal plain with multiple lagoons and limestone bluffs, it is a destination for challenging hikes and beautiful, undeveloped scenery.

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