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Nuiqsut is a small city in the North Slope Borough of northern Alaska. The population was 402 at the 2010 census.
Nuiqsut was one of three abandoned Inupiat villages identified in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and was resettled in 1973 by 27 families from Barrow. The old village of Nuiqsut (Itqilippaa) was abandoned in the late 1940's because there was no school.
Info & Photos:
www.prudhoebay.com/communities_Nuiqsut.htm
Overview & history:
www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_N...
Aerial photo:
www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/photos/comm_photos.cfm?com...
Excellent National Geographic article on the impact of oil exploration on the area: ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0605/feature1
Nuiqsut was one of three abandoned Inupiat villages identified in the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, and was resettled in 1973 by 27 families from Barrow. The old village of Nuiqsut (Itqilippaa) was abandoned in the late 1940's because there was no school.
Info & Photos:
www.prudhoebay.com/communities_Nuiqsut.htm
Overview & history:
www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_N...
Aerial photo:
www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/photos/comm_photos.cfm?com...
Excellent National Geographic article on the impact of oil exploration on the area: ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0605/feature1
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuiqsut,_Alaska
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 70°13'5"N 151°1'25"W
- Anaktuvuk Pass, AK 232 km
- Atqasuk, AK 243 km
- Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska 244 km
- Bettles, AK 367 km
- Ambler, AK 443 km
- Fort Yukon, AK 468 km
- Noorvik, Alaska 554 km
- Kotzebue, AK 597 km
- Point Hope, AK 654 km
- Inuvik 706 km
- Colville Delta 19 km
- Kuparuk River Unit Mine Site F 40 km
- Toolik Federal 3 45 km
- Kuparuk River Unit Mine D 52 km
- KRU CPF 1 55 km
- Kuparuk Industrial Center 56 km
- Causeway 56 km
- Spy Island 57 km
- Wolfbutton 25–6–9 64 km
- Confluence of rivers 66 km