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Show 1 SEABEES DRILL FOR OIL NEAR ARCTIC Little-mapped wilds of northernmost northern-most Alaska hold "Umiat No. 1," where U. S. navy seabees are drilling drill-ing for oil, says the National Geographic Geo-graphic society. The hole constitutes the nearest well to the North Pole that has ever been drilled. Umiat. not heretofore marked on even the most detailed Alaska maps, is on the Colville, chief river of northern Alaska. Sub-zero cold enforces a five-month five-month winter holiday on actual drilling drill-ing at Umiat. The bleak site is about 170 air miles southeast of Point Barrow, Alaska's northernmost northern-most projection into the Arctic ocean, and 350 air miles northward from Fairbanks, to which point a pipeline will eventually be laid if the project produces sizable quantities quan-tities of oil. |