The International Polar Expedition was sponsored by the U.S. Signal Corps and the Smithsonian Institution to establish a permanent station for meteorological, magnetic, tidal, and pendulum observation ...

The journal Arctic is North America’s premier journal of northern research. Now in its seventh decade of continuous publication, Arctic is a peer-reviewed, primary research journal that publishes the ...

An archeological survey directed by the author near Point Barrow, Alaska, during the summer of 1968 resulted in the discovery of Walakpa, a deeply stratified coastal Eskimo site. It contained over 20 ...

North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door ...

A line of pink lingers above the horizon, the April sun offering a welcome dose of brightness after the months-long polar night. A dozen miles off Point Barrow, Alaska’s northernmost tip, the sea is ...