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Point Franklin is a piece of land located on the Chukchi Sea side of North Slope, Alaska. Point Franklin is a few miles north of Wainwright , limiting with the Peard Bay to the east. Point Franklin was named by British mariner Frederick William Beechey on August 15, 1826, after Lieutenant (afterwards Sir) John Franklin .
Map of Alaska highlighting the Unorganized Borough. The Unorganized Borough is the portion of the U.S. state of Alaska not contained in any of its 19 organized boroughs. While referred to as the "Unorganized Borough", it is not a borough itself. It encompasses over half of Alaska's area, 970,500 km 2. If the unorganized Borough were a state in ...
Date: 29 February 2020: Source: Own work. this census.gov source was used to determine change effective from January 02, 2019; this data.census.gov source was used for the boundaries, but as noted on the first source "The Census Bureau does not have maps illustrating the boundary changes listed on this web page" - however I deemed it reasonable that the boundaries are likely to follow the ...
English: The maps use data from nationalatlas.gov, specifically countyp020.tar.gz on the Raw Data Download page. The maps also use state outline data from statesp020.tar.gz . The Florida maps use hydrogm020.tar.gz to display Lake Okeechobee.
Peard Bay is relatively small and it is limited by Point Franklin on its western side. Peard Bay Airport (WQJ) is close to the bay area. In several documents this bay is named erroneously as "Pearl Bay". Kugrua Bay is a smaller bay to the southeast, accessible through an opening in the shoreline of Peard Bay.
Point Barrow or Nuvuk is a headland on the Arctic coast in the U.S. state of Alaska, 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow). It is the northernmost point of all the territory of the United States, at 71°23′20″N 156°28′45″W / 71.38889°N 156.47917°W / 71.38889; -156.47917 ( Point Barrow ) , 1,122 ...
The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers ...
In the United States, inner suburbs (sometimes known as "first-ring" suburbs) are the older, more densely populated communities of a metropolitan area with histories that significantly predate those of their suburban or exurban counterparts. Most inner suburbs share a common border with the principal city of the metropolitan area and developed ...