Barrow Point

British

noun

the northernmost tip of Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean

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I join a team of scientists taking samples of the ice off Barrow Point.

From BBC

After long-awaited hot showers, we drove out toward Barrow Point to look for polar bear on the sea ice crowding the shoreline.

From New York Times

The wind veered round south towards evening; Hatteras ordered the brig to be put under sail and the fires to be put out; the crew had to work very hard for the next few days; they were more than a week getting to Barrow Point.

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