BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News

Two women reach out to touch one of the California gray whales trapped by ice near Point Barrow in October 1988. The Soviet icebreaker Admiral Makarov in the distance helped by cutting a path through the Beaufort Sea ice pack to open water.

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