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Typical Month
July
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Duration
3 days
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Size
small
About North Slope Borough Fair
The North Slope Borough Fair in Utqiagvik (Barrow) celebrates the northernmost community in the United States — Utqiagvik sits at 71.3°N latitude on the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi and Beaufort Seas, home of the Inupiaq people who have hunted bowhead whales on the Arctic ice for millennia, and where the Prudhoe Bay oil field's production funds one of Alaska's most oil-wealthy boroughs.
What to Expect
Expect a small community fair with Inupiaq cultural demonstrations including traditional blanket toss (nalukataq), Arctic subsistence hunting and fishing heritage exhibits, local food featuring muktuk (whale skin and blubber) and other Arctic foods, and the extraordinary cultural vitality of the world's northernmost American community.
Visitor Tips
Utqiagvik experiences 82 days of continuous polar night in winter and 84 days of midnight sun in summer. The Iñupiat Heritage Center preserves the whaling culture and artistic traditions of the Inupiaq people. Prudhoe Bay's oil fields and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline's northern terminus define the borough's economic significance.
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