1955 Map of Baird Mountains D-3

About this map

The Noatak River cuts a wide, braided path through this Arctic landscape, serving as the central drainage for a network of named tributaries. Surveyed in the mid-1950s by the Army Map Service, the topography reveals a transition from the lower river valley into the prominent Angayukakik Hills. Evidence of early geodetic surveying is visible at Noatak East Base and Noatak West Base, baseline markers established for mapping this remote interior. North of the river, the Uyon Lakes and the winding Isaaktuvik Creek occupy a flatter basin before the terrain rises sharply into named peaks like Parka. The map documents a wilderness without established roads or trails, where drainage patterns like Kanayut Creek and Uluksiak Creek dictate the logic of the land.