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Point Barrow first appeared on the 1880 U.S. census as the unincorporated Inuit village of "Kokmullit" (AKA Nuwuk). All 200 residents were Inuit. In 1890, it returned as Point Barrow, which also included the Refuge & Whaling
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atmospheric monitoring station. It is immediately adjacent to the
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tried to reach it from the east and was blocked by ice.
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