Barter Island
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Barter Island is an island located on the Arctic coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, east of Arey Island in the Beaufort Sea. It is about four miles long and about two miles wide at its widest point.
A polar bear near Kaktovik
Kaktovik, Alaska
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Kaktovik is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 283 at the 2020 census.
Barter Island
…to complete the rest of the DEW Line. Several families settled near the runway and the area around the runway was incorporated in 1971 as the City of Kaktovik. In 1970 3 sounding rockets of Nike-Tomahawk type were launched there for high-altitude research…
Kaktovik in 2018
Historical aerial view of Kaktovik and Barter Island LRRS