Monument, Alaska

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Monument is the modern name for this site after the monument to Will Rogers and Wiley Post that was placed here in 1935. In Iñupiaq it is known as Ualiqpaa (Walakpa) and has been continuously hunted, fished, and camped possibly for millennia.

iceandtime.net/category/walakpa/
pulitzercenter.org/reporting/history-melting-how-climat...
www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Anthropology/pd...
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Coordinates:   71°9'16"N   157°3'46"W
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