Huffington Post | There's No Place Like Nome: Alaska's Wild West on the Looney Front, Part 1 Huffington Post ... in far west Alaska, 102 miles south of the Arctic Circle, only 161 miles from Siberia - got its name? You don't? Well, here it is anyway. Way back in the 19th century a map maker marked the unnamed location '? Name,' and a succeeding copier mistook ... |