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Point Barrow
Point Barrow or Point Nuvuk, is a headland at the northernmost point of Alaska and of the United States, on the Arctic Ocean, 15 km (9 miles) northeast of Barrow, Alaska, at . It was discovered for Europeans in 1825 by Frederick William Beechey and named for Sir John Barrow, a statesman and geographer in the British Admiralty.
Navigation around the Point is ice-free for only two or three months a year.
From Point Barrow at 71°02′ N 156°47′ W between 1965 to 1972 some sounding rockets of the type "Nike Cajun" and "Nike Apache" were launched.
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