The Fairbanks Economic Community

Authors

  • Francis R. Eels

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic3288

Keywords:

Atmospheric pressure, Beaches, Breakup, Climate change, Coast changes, Coasts, Diurnal variations, Erosion, Floods, Formation, Gravel, Ice cover, Sea level, Seasonal variations, Sediment transport, Storms, Tides, Winds, Velocity, Barrow region, Alaska, Barrow waters, Barrow, Point, region, waters

Abstract

Fairbanks, the unofficial capital of interior Alaska, has grown to become the second largest city in the state, despite a boom and bust economic history, its geographic isolation, and the most severe temperature variance for a community its size in the United States. The city is the urban focus of Alaska's vast interior region and is the trade and transportation centre for communities scattered over 227,000 square miles. ...

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Published

1967-01-01

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2 (1967): June: 61–144

Section

Notes