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Kaktovik

Kaktovik is a city of just under three hundred people on the Beaufort Sea in 's North Slope Borough.
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  • Type: Village with 283 residents
  • Description: federally recognized tribe and city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States
  • Also known as: “Barter Island”, “Kaaktovik”, “Kaktoavik”, “Kaktovik Village”, “Kaktovik, Alaska”, “Katovik”, and “Qaaktugvik”
  • Postal code: 99747

Places of Interest

Highlights include Barter Island LRRS Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a public/military located near the city of Kaktovik on , in the , located 312 miles east of Point Barrow, Alaska.

Kaktovik

Latitude
70.1275° or 70° 7′ 39″ north
Longitude
-143.6129° or 143° 36′ 46″ west
Population
283
Elevation
26 feet (8 metres)
Open location code
C32R49GP+XV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 150918457
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
5865670
Wiki­data ID
Q79717
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Satellite Map

Discover Kaktovik from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Kaktovik” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كاكتوفيك”
  • Basque: “Kaktovik”
  • Basque: “Qaaktuġvik”
  • Catalan: “Kaktovik”
  • Cebuano: “Kaktovik”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاکتۆڤیک، ئالاسکا”
  • Chamorro: “Kaktovik”
  • Chechen: “Кактовик”
  • Chinese: “Kaktovik”
  • Chinese: “卡克托维克”
  • Czech: “Kaktovik”
  • Danish: “Kaktovik”
  • Dutch: “Kaktovik”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كاكتوفيك”
  • Finnish: “Kaktovik”
  • French: “Kaktovik”
  • German: “Kaktovik”
  • Gilaki: “کاکتوویک”
  • Haitian: “Kaktovik”
  • Hebrew: “קאקטוביק”
  • Hungarian: “Kaktovik”
  • Inupiaq: “Qaagtuviġmiut”
  • Inupiaq: “Qaaqtuvigmiut”
  • Irish: “Kaktovik”
  • Italian: “Kaktovik”
  • Japanese: “カクトビク”
  • Korean: “카크토비크”
  • Ladin: “Kaktovik”
  • Malagasy: “Kaktovik, Alaska”
  • Malagasy: “Kaktovik”
  • Malayalam: “കാക്റ്റോവിക്, അലാസ്ക”
  • Malayalam: “കാക്റ്റോവിക്”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kaktovik”
  • Newari: “काक्टोभिक (अलास्का)”
  • Newari: “काक्टोभिक, अलास्का”
  • Newari: “काक्टोभिक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaktovik”
  • Norwegian: “Kaktovik”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kaktovik”
  • Persian: “کاکتوویک، آلاسکا”
  • Persian: “کاکتوویک، الاسکا”
  • Persian: “کاکتوویک”
  • Polish: “Kaktovik”
  • Russian: “Кактовик”
  • Serbian: “Кактовик”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kaktovik, Alaska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kaktovik”
  • Slovak: “Kaktovik”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاکتوویک، آلاسکا”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاکتوویک”
  • Spanish: “Kaktovic (Alaska)”
  • Spanish: “Kaktovik”
  • Swedish: “Kaktovik”
  • Talysh: “Kaktovik”
  • Tatar: “Кактовик”
  • Turkish: “Kaktovik, Alaska”
  • Turkish: “Kaktovik”
  • Ukrainian: “Кактовік”
  • Uzbek: “Kaktovik”
  • Volapük: “Kaktovik”
  • Western Mari: “Кактовик”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Kaktovik”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.