Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska

• Prototype house with traditional roots may replace rotting Quinhagak homes
  

  Houses in Quinhagak battered by decades of fierce wet winds might soon be replaced by a new model that hearkens back to traditional Native sod houses.

• Unspoken change: Back to the village after college
  

  Link: Stop and Smell the Lichen blog A resident of Anaktuvuk Pass returns to the village after seven years getting higher education Outside and reflects on the changes in herself and in the attitude of villagers toward her.

• Redcom to install equipment in the Arctic
  

  Redcom Laboratories Inc. said it has inked a deal with Arctic Slope Telephone Association Cooperative to install three telecommunication switches in Alaska's North Slope.

• Mayor George Paneak of Anaktuvuk Pass
  

  Link: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Mayor George Paneak of Anaktuvuk Pass, who grew up in a sod hut near the Brooks Range community and who in recent years championed environmentally sustainable construction in rural Alaska, has died after a battle with cancer.

• City all set for new boom
  

  Editor's note: As we recognize the 50th anniversary of President Dwight Eisenhower's signing of the Alaska statehood proclamation on Jan.

• Anaktuvuk Pass closes school due to sick kids
  

  PRECAUTIONS: Villages do what they can against swine flu. Published: September 11th, 2009 09:23 PM Last Modified: September 12th, 2009 01:24 AM Officials temporarily closed a village school in the Brooks Range Friday after as many as half the students stayed home sick.

• Trio of novice packrafters takes on the Brooks Range
  

  Ahead of me, the John River veered through a narrow chute and shot past a sheer rock face, its clear waters lost in a turbid whorl.

• A housing precedent is set as Alaska village of Newtok looks for a new home
  

  Residents of the southwest Alaska village of Newtok hope to move to a new town site within five years, far away from the eroding river that's rapidly eating away at their community.

City Description

Anaktuvuk Pass is a city and mountain pass in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 249 at the 2007 Census Bureau estimate. Anaktuvuk Pass is slightly north of the Brooks Range on the divide between the Anaktuvuk and the John Rivers, located at an elevation of 2,200 ft (670 m). Anaktuvuk Pass is the last remaining settlement of the Nunamiut (People of the Land) Inupiat Eskimo in Alaska. The community lies at approximately 68.143330° North Latitude and -151.735830° (West) Longitude. (Sec. 18, T015S, R002E, Umiat Meridian.) and located within the Barrow Recording District. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.9 sq mi (12.7 km), of which 4.8 sq mi (12.4 km) is land and 0.1 sq mi (0.3 km) (1.63%) is water. The climate of Anaktuvuk Pass is strongly continental, due to its high elevation; summers are cool. The average temperature in January is −14 °F (−25.6 °C) while temperatures in the summer only reach 50 °F (10 °C). Extremes recorded in Anaktuvuk Pass are the maximum low being −56 °F (−48.9 °C) and the maximum high being 91 °F (33 °C). Anaktuvuk Pass receives about 11 in (280 mm) of rain a year, with snowfall averaging

City Contained By:

• United States of America
• Alaska
• North Slope Borough

Size:

• 12.4319429296 km squared

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