Barrow Point

[bar-oh]

noun

Also called Bar·row-in-Fur·ness

[bar-oh-in-fur-nis] . a seaport in Cumbria, in NW England. 73,900.

Point, the N tip of Alaska: the northernmost point of the U.S.

a town in N Alaska, S of Barrow Point: site of a government science-research center. 2207.

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Barrow Point

—n
	the northernmost tip of Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean

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