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In Barrow, Alaska, the Iñupiat people have thrived for thousands of years on the rooftop of the world in one of the harshest climates on Earth, hunting the bowhead, or "Agviq." In the 19th century, commercial whalemen from New England also came to these lonely seas seeking the bowhead for its valuable baleen and blubber. Located 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Barrow has a cold, dry polar climate in which winter weather can be extremely dangerous because of the combination of cold and wind, while summers remain cool even at their warmest.
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Utqiagvik, Alaska · United States
