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Barrow, Alaska is located in North Slope County. Zip codes in Barrow, AK include 99723, 99759, and 99789. More Barrow information.

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14 hrs ago | WOODTV.com

Summer Solstice

The Summer Solstice occurs at 11:04 AM Friday. At that minute, the sun is as far north as it gets in it's yearly journey.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Elise Patkotak: Tropical heat in Anchorage? This isn't right

OK, let's get one thing straight. If I'd wanted to have bright, hot sunshine for weeks in a row I'd have moved to Fairbanks or Hawaii or Mexico or, if I was really desperate, Florida.

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National Geographic

For Some Arctic Birds, Time of Day Is Irrelevant

Arctic summers mean migrating animals, a bounty of breeding opportunities, and 24 hours of sunlight.

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News Observer

NC scientist lands astronaut dream job

Christina Hammock of Jacksonville, an alumna of N.C. State University, has been named one of eight selected to join NASA’s Astronaut Class of 2013.

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Sat Jun 08, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Reading the North

The blurb: For years, tour guide Daniel James Inulak Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark sandy beaches.

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Thu May 30, 2013

Alaska Journal of Commerce

Quintillion project seeks to build Arctic telecom network

Quintillion, the Alaska-arm of the international Arctic Fibre project, wants to lay submarine fiber optic cable from Asia to Europe, routed along Alaska's northern coastline with spurs to five communities.

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Sun May 26, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Molly Rettig: Graduate students learn the art of ice coring

The trick to getting a good ice core is to drill straight down into the sea ice, continually clear the slush gurgling up from the ocean, correctly reassemble the core fragments on the tray, take its temperature every couple of inches before it melts or cools, and saw it into hockey-puck-shaped chunks without dropping them in the snow.

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WOODTV.com

Alaska Thaws

Picture from KTUU shows the spring flood of the Yukon River . Barrow, Alaska had their warmest temperature of the spring on Friday at 39 degrees.

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Sat May 25, 2013

Anchorage Daily News

Folklorist follows trail of an Arctic classic

CRAIG MISHLER will speak about his book, “The Blind Man and the Loon” at 4 p.m. on May 28 at the UAA Campus Bookstore.

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Fri May 24, 2013

Materialicious

Barrow Cabins by Eirik Johnson

Way out there where the air smells fresh, the trees are dense, and cell phones only work as alarm clocks are make shift cabins reconnecting us to nature.

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Tue May 21, 2013

The Day

Coast Guard releases its Arctic strategy: Keep it seasonal for now

Since more Coast Guard ships and planes are operating in the Arctic, Adm. Robert J. Papp Jr.

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Fire Warning for North Slope County was issued at June 19 at 7:10AM AKDT