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After getting 30 minutes of daylight, the town of Utqiaġvik, Alaska – formerly known as Barrow – saw its final sunset of the year on Monday as it enters a "polar night." The sun won't return ...
Peaked Island is an uninhabited island located in the Aleutian Islands chain in Alaska. [1] It is the westernmost point in the 50 states by direction of travel, and last sunset (at equinox) in U.S. territory. West of it passes the International Date Line, after which come Russian territorial islands.
Peaked Island, offshore from Cape Wrangell, Attu Island, Alaska – westernmost point in the 50 states by direction of travel, and last sunset (at equinox) in all U.S. territories West of it passes the International Date Line , after which come Russian territorial islands.
For instance, in Fairbanks, Alaska, which is south of the Arctic Circle, the Sun sets at 12:47 a.m. at the summer solstice. This is because Fairbanks is 51 minutes (1 hour and 51 minutes at Daylight Savings Time) ahead of its idealized time zone (as most of the state is in one time zone) and Alaska observes daylight saving time.
Weather.com -- Early Monday morning, the sun set briefly in Barrow, Alaska, something that won't be seen there again in more than two months. At 2:09 a.m. ADT Monday, America's northernmost city ...
Alaska would naturally fall into five time zones, with the greatest territory more correctly in UTC−10:00 and UTC−11:00, with Adak more correctly in UTC–12:00 and Cape Wrangell in UTC–13:00 as sunset can be late as midnight. But political and logistical considerations have led to the use of two time zones, leading to the distortions ...
The roads in Utqiagvik are unpaved due to the permafrost. No roads connect the city to the rest of Alaska. [76] Utqiagvik is served by Alaska Airlines with passenger jet service at the Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport to and from Anchorage and Fairbanks. New service between Fairbanks and Anchorage began from Era Aviation on June 1, 2009.
Period Record temperature [5] Date January: 50 °F (10 °C) January 27, 2014 January 19, 1961 February: 49 °F (9 °C) Feb 27, 2014 March: 53 °F (12 °C)