Utqiagvic Alaska
Also know as Barrow, will not see another sunrise until Jan. 22, 2022. Talk about being kept in the dark.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utqiagvik,_Alaska
When the sun sets on November 18, it will stay below the horizon until January 23, resulting in a polar night that lasts for about 66 days.[36] When the polar night starts, there is about 6 hours of civil twilight, with the amount decreasing each day during the first half of the polar night. On the winter solstice (around December 21 or December 22), civil twilight in Utqiagvik lasts for a mere 3 hours.[33][37] After this, the amount of civil twilight increases each day to around 6 hours at the end of the polar night.
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Funny thing is, the exact same phenomenon happens on summer Solstice but inverted. Here’s our northern sky on Solstice, where the Sun juuuuust dips below the horizon a couple hours.
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I wonder how people ended up living there.
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I wonder how people ended up living there.
Following the food. Once you're north of Bethel or Nome, it's all the same, cold and dark. So go where the food is. Humpback and Bowhead whales migrate up around the point, so they went where it's easy to launch an umiaq and get a whale.
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guess they can't spell any better than a few of us on here...............no wonder they call it Barrow
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"Barrow" was named by an explorer Fred Beechey in 1825. The historical name was Ukpeaġvik which translates to "the place where the snowy owls are hunted" in Iñupiat Iñupiaq.
I know that sounds weird but the people up there are Iñupiaq eskimos and the Iñupiat are a small sub-culture. The place was incorporated in 1925 and given the name Utqiagvik, which is what it was recently changed back to.
Una inuq aaniqtuuq! Quyanaqpak.
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When I lived in Fairbanks, there was a good sized hill out just west of town. On the summer solstice, college kids from the University used to throw a hell of a Midnight Sun party on 21 Jun. Due to height of hill, on 21st sun would come down just at the northern horizon, dip partially below, and start back up again.
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Una inuq aaniqtuuq! Quyanaqpak.
not 100% certain of it, but I think last word is “big thank you” or “thank you much”?
enlighten us nanuq907.
Mule
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You got it Mule. Q’ayana is a generalized hello or goodbye like “aloha” in Hawaiian. So quyanaqpak is the super duper form of the greeting.
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I didn't know they changed the name from Barrow to the more PC name which I am not even going to try to pronounce, in an effort to "de-colonize".🤮
I never knew Alaska was a colony of the US. I thought it was a terriority that we bought from the Russian Empire and at one point in time asked and voted on becomming a official state of THESE United States as they were known as.
I guess that is old history and is not as fun and piffy as new history because as we all know there have to be a victim.
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The name switch was to get back to their indigenous roots as they throw off the influence of the horrible gussuk. We ruined their culture, as you know, as they sit in houses we built and gave them for free, enjoying lights, warmth and running water, sewer, and Internet.
Your history of pre-statehood is correct. Did you also know the Japanese invaded Alaska and tried to establish a presence they could defend as they pressed further east? The only place in the USA that’s ever had an invading force ashore.
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I did know that. The Aleutian Campaign was the bloodiest campaign of WW2 I believe. Lots of wounded from the environment a lot of aircraft lost due to the winds, they have a name for the winds it like willy wog.
They had a scout unit made up of guys who were hunters and guides in AK and the west. The infantry units they sent there were specially trained and were part of the 10th Mtn Division. I believe the units were the 1st to fight in both the Pacific and the European campaigns.
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Yep it was absolute hell out there. Those native boys earned their medals and to his detriment it took Uncle Sam decades too long to cough them up.
PS: “williwaw”
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Everything I know about Alaska I learned from this
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