The Anaktuvuk Pass ("the place of caribou droppings", el. 2,200 ft.) is a mountain pass located in Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve in North Slope Borough in northern Alaska. The Anaktuvuk Pass is in the Brooks Range which divides the Anaktuvuk River with the John River.
Anaktuvuk Pass is a village in the pass, the home of the only concentrated population of the Nunamiut, the only true inland Eskimo group in Alaska.
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