ANAKTUVUK PASS 



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68"3r 



Figure 6. — Sketch map of Killik Pa^s. 



In early February 1953, I was detained in Bettles for 8 days by a 

 spell of weather below — 40° C, too cold for flying to Anaktuvuk. The 

 time was used for making observations on the winter dessication of 

 leaf and flower buds. The snow cover was unusually thin and the 

 residents feared the effects of the consequent thick formation of ice 

 in the marshy ponds in which muskrats and beavers had to live in the 



