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...mining town north of Fairbanks, to the bleak oilfields of Prudhoe Bay. Following roughly a parallel course northeastward across similarly unspoiled wilderness, Canada's Dempster Highway extends 465 miles from historic Dawson (pop. 745) in the Yukon to the government-built showcase city of Inuvik (pop. 4,150), close to the Beaufort...
...beyond. At the 253.7-mile mark, a simple sign announces the 66° 30 min. latitude of the Arctic Circle. Then the road continues into the Northwest Territories, meets the Peel and Mackenzie rivers, and heads deep into the low, flat, piney Mackenzie Delta until at last it reaches Inuvik...
...Alaska state officials, the Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce believes that the Haul Road could be bustling with so much traffic by 1985 that it will steer an extra $15 million a year into their city. The Dempster's boosters see one certain payoff. No longer will residents of Inuvik and the outlying Mackenzie Delta, where oil exploration is now being expanded, need to import most of their food, fuel, clothing, machinery and other supplies by expensive airfreight...
...some observers it all seems risky. One is former Inuvik Mayor Jim Robertson, who predicts a flood of tourists. Says he plaintively: "We'll be the biggest used-car lot in the world. Every fool in an air-conditioned Cadillac will want to drive here, and one way will be enough. They won't go back over that road. They'll dump their cars here and fly home...
...Pull. While there was no one to stand up to Tookoome in ipirautaqturniq, there was competition aplenty in aqraorak and nalukataak. Mickey Gordon, 23, an Eskimo from Inuvik, and Reggie Joule, a sophomore at the University of Alaska, battled for honors in aqraorak. The event consists of trying to kick a sealskin ball dangling from a pole. Kicking furiously aloft, Gordon came within a toe of breaking his own world record of 8 ft. 2 in. Joule -all 5 ft. 5 in. of him-performed just as brilliantly, though it must be remembered that aqraorak is not his forte. Joule...