Point Barrow

abandoned village

Nuvuk, Alaska

aurora borealis

Every clear night the sky was illuminated by the most beautiful displays of aurora it has ever been my fortune to witness; they always commenced in the northeast and northwest, and seemed to spring from a dark low bank of clouds. The lights were never stationary for a single second, neither did they ever take the form of bows or arches so often seen in other latitudes, but great curtains of light flashing with all the prismatic colors seemed to be drawn across the heavens, ever rising and changing and often culminating in a corona at the zenith, falling like a shower of meteoric lire. As the winter advanced these displays were more brilliant, and were always of a character that defies description, either by pen or pencil, as they were never for two seconds alike.

cape of

expedition

Report of the International Polar Expedition to Point Barrow, Alaska

northernmost point of

United States

observation station

In 1881, he [Patrick Henry Ray] established a meteorological and magnetic observation station at Barrow, Alaska.

OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/846344804

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/places/capes/point-barrow/point-barrow.md

random

Alkalurops (stars.astro.illinois.edu) ALKALUROPS (Mu Bootis). The naming of stars sometimes seems random. Some bright stars within a constellation will carry no proper names, while other much fainter ones do (the classic case that of Gamma Cassiopeiae). In Bootes, the Herdsman, the Alpha, Beta, and Gamma stars carry the proper names Arcturus, Nekkar, and Seginus. Third magnitude Delta has none, but then we can reach all the way to fourth magnitude (4.31) Mu Bootis, which is called by the jaw-breaking name Alkalurops.

sighting

we sighted the point [Barrow] on the afternoon of September 8 [in 1881], and came to anchor about one mile to the northeast of Cape Smythe, thus successfully accomplishing the first and most important stage of our work.

signal station

tags

cape

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1343019

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Barrow