1983 Map of Arctic B-3

About this map

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge encompasses this expansive high-latitude landscape, where the Junjik River flows through the central valley to meet the East Fork Chandalar River. This 1983 provisional survey shows a wilderness devoid of roads or permanent settlements, defined instead by the hydrologic network of Deadman Creek and Water Creek. Significant topographic landmarks like Yasuda Mountain, Nichenthraw Mountain, and Water Creek Mountain rise above a series of remote water bodies, including Tinjik Lake, Noah Lake, and Below Tree Lake. The map serves as a primary record of the northern interior's drainage patterns and unnamed topographical features as they were understood during the late twentieth-century expansion of federal conservation efforts in the North Slope Borough.