Kaktovik, Barter Island

Kaktovik is a community on Barter Island and historically was a major trading center for the Iñupiat from Alaska and Inuit from Canada, situated between the Arctic Coastal Plain and the Beaufort Sea with Arey Lagoon to the west and Kaktovik Lagoon to the east, about 113 miles (182 km) east of Deadhorse and 66 miles (106 km) west-northwest of Gordon, Alaska.