Two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle lies the Far North Iñupiaq village of Point Hope, located near the tip of the Point Hope Promontory, a large gravel spit projecting several miles into the Chukchi Sea. The finger-like peninsula that forms the western-most extension of the northwest Alaska coast between Cape Thompson and Cape Beaufort is known to local residents as Tikigaq (Tikeraq), the Inupiat word for index finger. Located 330 miles southwest of Barrow, Alaska and 4,359 miles Washington DC, this remote Northern village is reached by air from Fairbanks or Anchorage via Kotzebue. A state-owned 4,000-foot paved airstrip provides year-round access. Pickup trucks, four-wheelers, snow machines and skiffs are used for local transportation.