Kotzebue
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Kotzebue is located on the Baldwin Peninsula in Kotzebue Sound, 549 air miles from Anchorage and 26 miles above the Arctic Circle. As the service and transportation hub for all villages in the northwest region and the transfer point between ocean and inland shipping, Kotzebue has a healthy cash economy, growing private sector, and stable public sector. The Iñupiat people have occupied the site for at least 600 years.