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The traditional name for this community is Ukpiagvik (“place for hunting owls”). But a British sailing officer named Beechey on a surveying expedition in 1825-26 named the place after Sir John Barrow of the British Admiralty, and the name on the subsequently printed maps prevailed. Barrow…