Tin City | |
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 Tin City in the 1940s | |
| Coordinates: 65°33′31″N 167°56′53″W / 65.55861°N 167.94806°W | |
| Population | |
| • Total | 0 |
Tin City (Inupiaq: Tupqaġruk) is an abandoned town except for a nearby minimally staffed radar station, in the Nome Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is situated at the mouth of Cape Creek, on the Bering Sea coast, 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Cape Prince of Wales on the Seward Peninsula.[1]
They also have the nearby Tin City LRRS (Long Range Radar Site) Airport.
- ^ "Tin City". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved July 10, 2009.