Kaktovik/Barter Island Kaktovik is an Inupiat village located on Barter Island, 90 miles west of the Canadian border and 278 miles southeast of Barrow. The village was much-visited by whaling crews at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. After World War II a DEW line site was constructed on the island. The discovery of oil at Prudhoe Bay, 120 miles to the west, led to Kaktovik's rapid modernization and increased prosperity.

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Subhankar Banerjee Inupiat Cemetery, Kaktovik 2001	David Rosenthal Barter Island Violet Mist Oil on canvas 30 x 28 in 1989	David Rosenthal Kaktovik Lagoon Oil on canvas 30 x 28 in 1988	David Rosenthal Barter Island Sunrise Oil on canvas 25 x 23 in 1990