Kivalina sits on a barrier island between a lagoon and the Chukchi Sea, and the land available to it has been shrinking for decades. A village on a barrier island, and the island is narrowing
Photo: Kivalina Alaska aerial view · Wikimedia Commons
The relocation studies, and the decades they cover.
Kivalina sits on a barrier island between a lagoon and the Chukchi Sea, and the land available to it has been shrinking for decades. A village on a barrier island, and the island is narrowing
Photo: Kivalina Alaska aerial view · Wikimedia Commons
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Kivalina sits on a barrier island between a lagoon and the Chukchi Sea, and the land available to it has been shrinking for decades.
Multiple agency studies have examined moving the village, and the record of those studies is itself the clearest account of why it has not happened.
In a community this size the school is the largest building and the largest investment, so siting it is effectively siting the settlement.
Where this section sits: the Wulik drainage from the De Long Mountains to the Chukchi Sea.
Geometry: project map kit
Elsewhere on the river