Shaktoolik
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About Shaktoolik
Shaktoolik is a very small village along Norton Sound. This community has been moved twice because of encroaching seas, a result of global warming that has melted a lot of Arctic ice.
Shaktoolik travel guide
Getting there
You can get in via:
the Iditarod Trail the Shaktoolik Airport, which is served by Bering Air to nearby communities and Nome, which is served by Alaska Airlines.
Go next
Ungalik, a place to stop if heading west on the Iditarod Trail Unalakleet, a fairly large town by Arctic standards, if going east along the Iditarod Trail. This town is about 25 miles south-southeast of Shaktoolik.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Photography via Wikimedia Commons.