When James Judkins began pulling up his fishing nets out near Point Barrow this month, the weight of the catch pulled back at him. “Man, this is a really big fish,” Judkins thought. Then, he glimpsed ...

The International Polar Expedition was sponsored by the U.S. Signal Corps and the Smithsonian Institution to establish a permanent station for meteorological, magnetic, tidal, and pendulum observation ...

This field book contains John Murdoch's catalogue on fishes and mammals made by the Point Barrow Polar Expedition, 1881-1883. Collections are from Alaska (possibly near Point Barrow) between ...

Adams is a good patrician name in Boston. But John Quincy Adams was rediscovered last summer at the northernmost tip of U.S. territory--Point Barrow, Alaska. "Jawn," the latest namesake of several ...