By Anthony Remboldt – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
Kobuk Valley National Park in northwestern Alaska 25 miles (40 km) north of the Arctic Circle is noted for the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes and caribou migration routes. No roads lead to the park. People typically get there by chartered air taxi. Three sets of sand dune fields are located on the south side of the Kobuk River. The Great Kobuk Sand Dunes, Little Kobuk Sand Dunes and the Hunt River Dunes are remnants of dune fields that covered as many as 200,000 acres immediately after the retreat of Pleistocene glaciation. A combination of out-wash deposits from the glaciers and strong winds created the field, which is now mostly covered by forest and tundra.
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By National Park Service, Alaska Region – Kobuk RiverUploaded by AlbertHerring, Public Domain, Link
By Western Arctic National Parklands – Stream and Sand, CC BY 2.0, Link
By National Park Service, Alaska Region – Kobuk RiverUploaded by AlbertHerring, Public Domain, Link
By National Park Service, Alaska Region [CC BY 2.0 or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
By Western Arctic National Parklands – Cruising on the Kobuk, CC BY 2.0, Link
The last place on Earth you’d expect to see sand dunes!!
Whoa!
Whoa!