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The Alaska North Slope is the region of the U.S. state of Alaska located on the northern slope of the Brooks Range along the coast of two marginal seas of the Arctic Ocean, the Chukchi Sea being on the western side of Point Barrow, and the Beaufort Sea on the eastern.
The North Slope Borough is the northernmost borough in the US state of Alaska and, thus, the northernmost county or equivalent of the United States as a whole. As of the 2020 census , the population was 11,031. [ 3 ]
Alaskan North Slope, Foreland Basin. The Alaskan North Slope (ANS) is a foreland basin located on the northern edge of the Brooks Range.The Alaska North Slope is bounded on the north by the Beaufort Sea and runs from the Canadian border to the maritime boundary with Russia in the west.
In 1972, the North Slope Borough was established. The borough has built sanitation facilities, water and electrical utilities, roads, and fire departments, and has established health and educational services in Utqiagvik and the villages of the North Slope with millions of dollars in new revenues from the settlement and later oil revenues.
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 , 1,122 nautical miles (1,291 mi; 2,078 km) south of the North
Slope Mountain is a mountain in the North Slope Borough, Alaska located 13 km (8.1 mi) southwest of the confluence of the Ribdon River and the Sagavanirktok River, 14 km (8 mi) east of Imnavait Mountain. [1] It is located at mile post 300 on the Dalton Highway, and falls on the northern boundary of Bureau of Land Management managed land. [2]
Alaska North Slope, a region encompassing the northernmost part of the U.S. state of Alaska; North Slope Borough, Alaska, a borough in Alaska whose boundaries roughly coincide with that of the region; North Slope, Tacoma, Washington, a neighborhood; North Slope, an Inupiaq language dialect; Alaska gas pipeline, also known as the North Slope Gas ...
Teshekpuk Lake is a 22 miles (35 km) wide lake on the Alaska North Slope within the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska. It is South of Pitt Point, 12 miles (19 km) east of Harrison Bay, 80 miles (130 km) east of Point Barrow. [1] Teshekpuk Lake is the largest lake in Arctic Alaska, and the largest thermokarst lake in the world. [4]