Kivalina, AK
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The city of Kivalina is a traditional Inupiat Eskimo subsistence community in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska. The population was 374 at the 2010 census.
It is the only village in the region where people hunt the bowhead whale.
Info & history:
www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_N...
Photos:
www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/photos/comm_photos.cfm?com...
In 2009, the remains of three 1,000 year old humans were found by construction workers.
www.adn.com/226/story/911114.html
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Photo credit:
Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs Photo Library
It is the only village in the region where people hunt the bowhead whale.
Info & history:
www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CIS.cfm?Comm_Boro_N...
Photos:
www.commerce.state.ak.us/dca/photos/comm_photos.cfm?com...
In 2009, the remains of three 1,000 year old humans were found by construction workers.
www.adn.com/226/story/911114.html
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Photo credit:
Alaska Division of Community and Regional Affairs Photo Library
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivalina,_Alaska
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 67°43'39"N 164°32'22"W
- Noatak, AK 67 km
- Point Lay, AK 233 km
- Point Belcher - Site of the Whaling disaster of 1871 and dozens of shipwrecks. 393 km
- Umiat, AK 534 km
- Anaktuvuk Pass, AK 535 km
- Chukchi National Rural Ryrkaypy 628 km
- Prudhoe Bay, AK 698 km
- Arctic Village, AK 790 km
- Old Crow, Yukon 1036 km
- Inuvik 1268 km
- Cape Krusenstern National Monument 58 km
- Telavirak Hills 63 km
- Red Dog Mine NANA Mining Lease 80 km
- Baldwin Peninsula 145 km
- Hotham Inlet 158 km
- Selawik Lake 215 km
- Inland Lake 247 km
- Great Kobuk Sand Dunes 254 km
- Pupik Hills Range 302 km
- Wainwright Inlet 363 km