Wevok ( Iñupiaq: ''Uivvaq'') is a former

Iñupiat The Inupiat (singular: Iñupiaq), also known as Alaskan Inuit, are a group of Alaska Natives whose traditional territory roughly spans northeast from Norton Sound on the Bering Sea to the northernmost part of the Canada–United States borde ...

village in the western part of

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in the

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. Its name is derived from the Iñupiat name of

Cape Lisburne Cape Lisburne ( Iñupiaq: ''Uivvaq'') is a cape located at the northwest point of the Lisburne Peninsula on the Chukchi Sea coast in Alaska. It is northeast of the village of Point Hope, part of the Arctic Slope. It is a part of the Chukchi ...

, which is to the west. Its maximum elevation is .

Demographics

Wevok appeared once on the 1880 U.S. Census as "Cape Lisburne", an unincorporated Inuit village of 13 residents (all Inuit). The village did not report again on the census.

Climate

Wevok has a weather station at nearby

. Wevok's climate is

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(

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''Dfc''), as the average temperature in the hottest month is only around . Due to the influence of the

Bering Sea The Bering Sea ( , ; rus, Бе́рингово мо́ре, r=Béringovo móre, p=ˈbʲerʲɪnɡəvə ˈmorʲe) is a marginal sea of the Northern Pacific Ocean. It forms, along with the Bering Strait, the divide between the two largest landmasse ...

and

Chukchi Sea The Chukchi Sea (, ), sometimes referred to as the Chuuk Sea, Chukotsk Sea or the Sea of Chukotsk, is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, ...

, the coldest months of the year are usually from February to March, and the warmest time of the year is from the end of July to the beginning of August.

References

{{North Slope Borough, Alaska Populated places in North Slope Borough, Alaska Chukchi Sea Inupiat