Alaska – the northernmost city in the United States – was missing. No, Barrow hadn’t literally been vanquished by the pounding waves of the Arctic Sea (although it does sit precipitously close).

Associated Press No roads lead to Barrow, Alaska. To reach America’s northernmost city (pop. 4,500), you must fly or, sea ice permitting, take a ship. Barrow’s residents use cars or four-wheel ...

In 1931, the SS Baychimo, a cargo ship owned by the Hudson Bay Company, became trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Despite efforts to free her, she vanished into the frozen Arctic sea, but ...

IT IS whaling season in Utqiagvik, the newly official—as well as ancient indigenous—name for Barrow, Alaska’s ... But out on the jumbled sea ice that stretches from town to the horizon ...