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Utqiagvik takes back its Inupiaq name

Utqiagvik, Alaska · 1826

Utqiagvik takes back its Inupiaq name

The northernmost town in the United States, where the sun does not rise for 65 days. It voted in 2016 to drop the name Barrow, given by a British admiralty official who never came, and return to its Inupiaq one.

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