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For thousands of years, Point Hope has been an advantageous promontory for the Inupiat subsistence bowhead whale hunters, who catch the whale as it migrates along Alaska’s northern coast.
На протяжении тысячелетий Пойнт Хоуп был выгодным мысом для охотников на гренландских китов инупиата, которые ловят китов, когда они мигрируют вдоль северного побережья Аляски.
An aerial view of Point Hope, Alaska.
Point Hope took three whales this year.
“Inupiaq people are taught to be patient,” said Steve Oomittuk, a leading local whale hunter whose family has lived in Point Hope for many generations.
POINT HOPE, Alaska — He once hurled harpoons at whales, but on this platinum afternoon beside the Arctic Ocean he swung a 5-iron at a frustrating little ball.
In .recent years, Point Hope whalers have taken and used as many as 12 or 14 of the whales, although last year, because of poor ice conditions, the villagers took only two.
POINT HOPE, Alaska — This is one of the most remote towns in the United States, a small gravel spit on the northwest coast of Alaska, more than 3,700 miles from New York City.