On Jan. 23, 1971, a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp measured a temperature of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

a small community in northwest Alaska, 33 miles north of the Arctic Circle. In the early 1960s, he went to the nation's capital to study political science at George Washington University.

Wiseman is located in Alaska's Brooks Range, about 15 miles north of Coldfoot Camp, 60 miles north of the Arctic Circle and 270 miles from Fairbanks. The community sits directly under the auroral ...