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Kotzebue

City in northwestern Alaska, at the tip of Baldwin Peninsula in Kotzebue Sound, 290 km/180 mi northeast of Nome; population (1990) 2,800. Set on tundra near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the largest Inuit settlements in Alaska. It is a trade centre for the surrounding area; tourism is also important. There is mining for zinc and lead north of the city.

Kotzebue was founded in the 18th century as a trading post for Arctic Alaska and part of Siberia.


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Mock, (McKinney), an erratic and impassioned `northern eccentric' who wants to publicize the ill-fated trek by riding a dogsled from Kotzebue, Alaska, to the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.
The Ambler Project is located approximately 170 miles east of Kotzebue, Alaska in the Kobuk River area of northwestern Alaska.
 
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