It was an Inuit whale hunter who first spotted them: three juvenile California gray whales, trapped in frozen seas near Point ...

When James Judkins began pulling up his fishing nets out near Point Barrow this month, the weight of the catch pulled back at him. “Man, this is a really big fish,” Judkins thought. Then, he glimpsed ...

North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door ...

This field book contains notes related to the Britton Project at Britton Manor in Point Barrow, Alaska. Notes relate to insects, especially beetles. Narrative notes from 4 June to 5 August 1953 are ...

In 1931, the SS Baychimo, a cargo ship owned by the Hudson Bay Company, became trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Despite efforts to free her, she vanished into the frozen Arctic sea, but ...

The International Polar Expedition was sponsored by the U.S. Signal Corps and the Smithsonian Institution to establish a permanent station for meteorological, magnetic, tidal, and pendulum observation ...

On Alaska’s uppermost tip, Point Barrow, Captain George Hubert Wilkins, blackbearded Australian soldier of fortune, searcher by air for an undiscovered continent, warmed up the Wright Whirlwind motor ...

A bowhead whale and calf swim in an open-water lead in the Arctic Ocean in this undated photo. (Photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) A line of pink lingers above the ...

CRAMER, JOHN MILTON (BILL) John Milton Cramer (Bill) was born on February 24, 1924, in Point Barrow, Alaska, and died on December 1, 2009. His parents, Russel and Lesley Cramer, were teachers at the U ...