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Where is Barrow? Check out the map below. |
 Book signing, Fort Smith, Arkansas. |
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Barrow is the northernmost settlement
on the North American mainland and in the United States. Located
320 miles north of the Arctic Circle, its cold, dry climate is
classified as a polar climate. Temperatures remain below freezing from early October through late May. The high daily temperature is above freezing on an average of only 109 days per year. There are freezing temperatures on an average of 324 days per year. Each November, the sun dips below the horizon and does not appear again until late January. With an average of less than five inches "equivalent rainfall" per year, which includes less than 30 inches of snow, Barrow is essentially an arctic desert. Nancy Owens Barnes lived and worked in Barrow for six years from the late 1970s to mid 1980s. |
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by Nancy Owens Barnes New Leaf Books, 2007
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SOUTH TO ALASKA
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© Copyright 2007
Nancy Owens Barnes ::: I am grateful to my brother Jerry and my late brother Donald for permission and use of a number of their photographs in this website. ::: |