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 Just wanted to finish the aerial overview. This shot shows the heart of Barrow, Alaska as it was in the summer of 1981. I suspect it looks a lot different today. The tower structure left center is the US Weather Service's weather station. The line of Quonset hut shaped tents stretching to the right (one is collapsed at the far left of the series) was the camp where we archaeologists were billeted for the summer. I have a series of 'camp life' pictures to share. We arrived mid June and stayed until early September. This and yesterday's pictures were actually taken on our departure at the end of the summer, but I thought a couple of aerial shots would give some context to the rest of the pictures. We arrived during the midnight sun, and didn't see an actual sun set until late August, and never saw it get much darker than twilight/dawn, two times that simply merged to one. While not much to look at, Barrow, as the government center for the North Slope Burough and the Inupiat Eskimos, was in fact a fairly wealthy community. The proceeds from the north slope oil wells (tapped at Prudhoe Bay, some many hundred miles to the east) filtered through this town, with every Eskimo resident earning a fairly nice royalty from the oil. Posted by forgingahead | Comment (1) Category: My Shots, Places I Have Visited Links: forgingahead Main Site Archives: People (75), Family (77), My Shots (120), Dad's Shots (128), Places I Have Lived (32), Places I Have Visited (64), Archaeology (23) | |
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