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Prudhoe Bay or Sagavanirktok () is a census-designated place ( CDP ) located in North Slope Borough in the U. S. state of Alaska.
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In 1968, the Atlantic-Richfield Company discovered oil at Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic coast, catapulting the issue of land ownership into headlines.
The oil, originally extracted at the Prudhoe Bay oil field, eventually covered of coastline, and of ocean.
The Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, the largest oil field in the United States in terms of total oil produced, was discovered in 1968.
Each year, thousands of waterfowl and other birds nest and reproduce in areas surrounding Prudhoe Bay and Kuparuk fields and a healthy and increasing caribou herd migrates through these areas to calve and seek respite from annoying pests.
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As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 2, 174 people ; however, at any given time several thousand transient workers support the Prudhoe Bay oil field.
Prudhoe Bay is the unofficial northern terminus of the Pan-American Highway.
Prudhoe Bay was named in 1826 by British explorer Sir John Franklin after his classmate Captain Algernon Percy, Baron Prudhoe.
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Prudhoe Bay is adjacent to the largest oil field in the United States.
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Coldfoot primarily serves as a truck stop on the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay.
The show, which dramatizes trucking on the Dalton Highway, often features truckers transporting equipment to the oil companies located in or around the Prudhoe Bay area.
In the 2000 United States Census, it was one of only 8 places with a population of five people ; the others were Storrie, California, Bear Head Lake, Minnesota, Baker, Missouri, Odell, New Hampshire, Maza, North Dakota, Somerset, Vermont, and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
The others are Storrie, California ; Bear Head Lake, Minnesota ; Baker, Missouri ; Gross, Nebraska ; Odell, New Hampshire ; Somerset, Vermont ; and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
Prudhoe and Sagavanirktok
Fed by glaciers at the headwaters, the Ivishak flows north, through the Philip Smith Mountains and the northern foothills of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and joins the Sagavanirktok River on the coastal plain south of Prudhoe Bay.
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Prudhoe () is a medium sized town just south of the River Tyne, in the southern part of the county of Northumberland, England about west of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Salvin is mostly responsible for the kitchen, the Prudhoe Tower, the palatial accommodation, and the layout of the inner ward.
It is commonly called the Alaska pipeline, trans-Alaska pipeline, or Alyeska pipeline, ( or the pipeline as referred to in Alaska ), but those terms technically apply only to the of the pipeline with the diameter of 48 inches ( 122 cm ) that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, to Valdez, Alaska.
The range is mostly uninhabited, but the Dalton Highway and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System run through the Atigun Pass ( 1, 415 m, 4, 643 ft ) on their way to the North Slope and the oil fields at Prudhoe Bay.
The Pan-American Highway system is mostly complete and extends from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in North America to the lower reaches of South America.
*-Prudhoe Bay, an area of Alaska containing the largest oil field in the USA is named indirectly after Prudhoe.
Northstar Island, an artificial island northwest of Prudhoe Bay, is a site of oil and gas drilling
Although Prudhoe Bay is permanently populated by only a few people, there are thousands of contract workers in the area employed on petroleum production at the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, which is on the coastal lowland known as the North Slope.
This problem was alleviated for Prudhoe Bay by constructing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, but is limiting regular commercial production at Mackenzie River deposits.
It is run by Go North East and provides links to Crawcrook, Newcastle, Blaydon, Prudhoe and Hexham.
The reason behind this procedure is that traffic going north is in somewhat of a hurry to deliver equipment to Deadhorse, Prudhoe Bay, and the drill site over the frozen Arctic Ocean.
He grew up in Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is his birthplace according to many biographies, but had actually been born in Prudhoe, some 60 miles further south near the River Tyne.
It is near Prudhoe Bay and is sometimes also called Prudhoe Airport.
The area is also well served by public transport, with regular bus links to Hexham, the MetroCentre, Gateshead and Newcastle Upon Tyne as well as nearby towns and villages such as Ryton, Prudhoe, Chopwell, High Spen and Clara Vale.
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The record $ 900 million created by the Prudhoe Bay oil lease sale took place at a time when the entire state budget was less than $ 118 million, yet the entire amount created by the sale was used up by 1975.
After the images are processed, Cambridge Bay will be the second-most-northern place depicted on Google Street View ( after Deadhorse Airport in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska ).
He replaced Mark Prudhoe in the Saddlers goal for the win against Rotherham United in October 1986, and kept his place in the first team for the majority of that campaign.
The River Tyne provided an obstacle between Ovingham and Prudhoe until 20 December 1883, when a toll bridge ( Ovingham Bridge ) was finally opened, taking the place of the ferry.
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