{"id":5900,"date":"2021-07-06T22:59:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-06T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/?p=5900"},"modified":"2021-12-16T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T05:35:29","slug":"20210705utqiagvik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.huangyizhou.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/06\/20210705utqiagvik\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5-6 of 2021 Alaska Trip, Utqiagvik, Northern-most American Town"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifth and sixth day of my 2021 Alaska trip. During these two days I visited Utqiagvik, the northern-most town of United States, where I experienced a polar day in this isolated town surrounded by tundra and arctic sea ice, before taking a connecting flight to Juneau where I would make a stopover on my way back to Washington DC.<\/p>\n

\"Midnight\"<\/a>

<\/br>Midnight<\/p><\/div>\n

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Finally, it\u2019s the highlight of this year\u2019s Alaska trip as I would be making an overnight trip to Utqiagvik, the northern-most town of United States.
\nWith a population of almost 5000, it\u2019s the largest town in Alaska\u2019s North Slope Borough. Located at a latitude of 71.3 degrees north, there was no other town on earth farther north with a higher population*. The town had been called \u201cBarrow\u201d until 2016 where the locals decided to rename it in their own native language. The roads in town was unpaved due to permafrost underneath, and no roads connected the town to the rest of Alaska. <\/p>\n

* Russia’s Tiksi was located farther north than Utqiagvik. Its last census data in 2010 had more population than Utqiagvik, but its latest prediction did not.<\/div>\n

After learning so many fascinating traits of the Utqiagvik, I would certainly love to check it out. The set of award ticket with Alaska Airlines was actually a roundtrip between Washington DC and Utqiagvik, with stopovers at Anchorage and Juneau respectively. While Alaska Airlines used to operate two daily flights between Anchorage and Utqiagvik (with stopover at Prudhoe Bay)<\/span>, which would make it a perfect day trip from Anchorage, in summer 2021 it changed its schedule to one daily nonstop flight from Anchorage. As a result, I was forced to spend a night in town. Yet on the bright side, it gave me a polar day experience.<\/p>\n