Talk:Barrow, Alaska
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Added a couple of pictures. --Cromagnon 02:18, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Trivia was wrong
Barrow has a "damp" law, not a "bone dry" law. I live here (Barrow), I know.
[edit] Will Rogers - Wiley Post plane crash detail; Barrow page at odds with Rogers & Post pages
The Barrow page is at odds with the Post page and Rogers page about details of their ill-fated trip to Alaska. All on Wikipedia.
The Barrow page says they were 'headed around the world'.
Per Post page: "Post became interested in 1935 in surveying a mail-and-passenger air route from the West Coast of the United States to Russia."
And "His friend Will Rogers often visited him at the airport in Burbank, California while he was building the plane and asked Post to fly him through Alaska in search of new material for his newspaper column."
Landing at Barrow: Per the Rogers page, bad weather and getting somewhat lost, they landed at Barrow for directions, get their bearings. [It was NOT a destination they had planned.]
Upon take off, an engine failed and they crashed.
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68.228.70.223 12:41, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Demographics?
This page has absolutely no info on the demographics of Barrow. Naaj 21:59, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Slight inaccuracy on main description, sort of.
This page lists Barrow as the northernmost settlement in the United States. While correct, it is also true that Barrow is the northernmost settlement on the continent of North America (also Point Barrow is the northernmost point on the continent.) —The preceding comment was added by Webgrunt 00:33, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
