Sights in Barrow
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Ukpiagvik
On the waterfront opposite Apayauk St at the south end of town is Ukpiagvik, the site of an ancient Inupiat village marked by the remains of semi-subterranean sod huts.
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North Slope Borough Building
Inupiat culture and art is on display in the lobby of the North Slope Borough Building. A gift shop here has baleen baskets, sealskin bags and ivory carvings for sale.
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Will Rogers & Wiley Post Monument
Opposite Barrow's airport is the Will Rogers & Wiley Post Monument, a six-sided cenotaph memorializing the famous comedian and his legendary pilot, who died together in 1935 when their plane stalled and crashed into a river 15 miles south of here. At the time, Rogers was on a comedy tour en route from Fairbanks to Siberia.
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Arctic Ocean Foreshore
The main thing to do at the top of the world is bundle up and stand on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, gazing toward the North Pole. You can stroll the gravel roads that parallel the sea to view umiaks (Inupiat skin boats), giant jawbones of bowhead whales, fish-drying racks and the jumbled Arctic pack ice that even in July spans the horizon.
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Point Barrow
Follow the shore 12 miles northeast of the city and you'll come to Point Barrow, a narrow spit of land that's the northernmost extremity of the US (though not, as locals sometimes claim, North America). In the winter and spring this is where polar bears den; in the summer it's the featured stop of organized tours. The buses never actually reach the tip, as the road ends several miles short of it. To continue on, you must walk or rent an ATV - and watch out for bears.
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