35,000 Walruses Come Ashore in Alaska Due to Lack of Sea Ice By Kaushik Thursday, October 02, 2014 Animals, News 1 comment The brown patch, on the photo below, is a congregation of an estimated 35,000 walruses that came ashore on a beach near Point Lay, an Inupiat Eskimo village, 300 miles southwest of Barrow and 700 miles northwest of Anchorage, in northwest Alaska. According..