Point Barrow, AK / Nuwuk, AK

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Northernmost point if the United States, Point Barrow was also the launch site of dozens of Nike Cajun and Nike Apache scientific-measurement rockets from 1965 to 1972. The Eskimo name of the point is Nuwak (or Nuwuk) meaning 'point of land'.

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Also shown on 1950's Topo maps as the site of the native village of Nuwuk, AK.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Barrow
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Coordinates:   71°23'0"N   156°28'2"W
This article was last modified 9 years ago