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Anaktuvuk Pass is home to two low-power FM translators. K268AB (FM 101.5) is a rebroadcaster of KBRW-FM, a public radio station in Utqiaġvik and K232DU, a rebroadcast of KYKD, a religious station from Bethel. Anaktuvuk Pass also has two low-power translators of the statewide Alaska Rural Communications Service on K04IX [20] and K09RS. [21]
The Anaktuvuk Pass ("the place of caribou droppings", el. 2,200 ft.) is a mountain pass located in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in North Slope Borough in northern Alaska. The Anaktuvuk Pass is in the Brooks Range which divides the Anaktuvuk River with the John River .
As measured at the Anaktuvuk Pass weather station (elevation 770 metres (2,530 ft)), the average summer temperatures are 16 °C (61 °F) as a high and 3 °C (37 °F) as a low. During the winter the average high is −22 °C (−8 °F) while the average low is −30 °C (−22 °F). [18]
The plant hardiness zone at Anaktuvuk Pass Ranger Station is 2b with an average annual extreme minimum temperature of −42.6 °F (−41.4 °C). [15] Perennial snowfields and glaciers, which are crucial to various ecosystems within the park, are decreasing at a rapid rate due to warming temperatures. [16]
The Anaktuvuk River [pronunciation?] (Inupiaq: Anaqtuuvak) is a river in Alaska's North Slope. [2] One hundred and thirty-five miles (217 km) long, it flows west from glaciers in the Endicott Mountains changing direction just north of Anaktuvuk Pass [1] to flow north to the Arctic Coastal Plain where it joins the Colville River.
The Village of Anaktuvuk Pass is headquartered in the city of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska. [2] As of 2005, the tribe had 279 enrolled citizens. [3]In 2022, the remains of a Nunamiut man that were being held by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University were repatriated to the Village of Anaktuvuk Pass.
Cockedhat Mountain is a 7,410-foot (2,259 m) mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska, and is one of the tallest mountains in the central Brooks Range. [1] Located in the midst of the protected wilderness of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Cockedhat Mountain is approximately 27 air miles from the village of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.
Anaktuvuk Pass Airport resides at elevation of 2,102 feet (641 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 2/20 with a gravel surface measuring 4,800 by 100 feet (1,463 x 30 m). [1] For the 12-month period ending January 1, 2006, the airport had 3,600 aircraft operations, an average of 300 per month: 89% air taxi and 11% general ...