2013 Map of Anchorage B-1 NW

About this map

The high alpine wilderness of the Chugach National Forest dominates this 2013 survey, capturing a landscape defined by massive ice fields and high peaks along the border of Matanuska-Susitna and Valdez-Cordova. The map document is a study in glaciology, tracing the northern reaches of the Harvard Glacier and the Matanuska Glacier, alongside the headwaters of the Yale Glacier and Columbia Glacier. These ice bodies carve through the Dora Keen Range, where extreme elevations are marked by landmarks such as Mount Witherspoon and Mount Edison. This topographical record provides a precise look at the glacial extents and drainage patterns in one of Alaska's most inaccessible regions, where the lack of human infrastructure highlights the purely natural state of the Chugach mountains at the beginning of the twenty-first century.