1963 Map of False Pass C-2

About this map

Cherni Island serves as the central focal point of this maritime survey in the Aleutians East region, surrounded by the hazardous navigation of the Sandman Reefs. The map captures a landscape defined by isolated landforms and extensive shoals, including the Southwest Islands and the descriptively named The Clubbing Rocks. Detailed soundings throughout the Pacific Ocean waters provide depth data essential for the era's seafaring, though the topography of the islands themselves remained largely unsurveyed by the Bureau of Land Management at the time of publication. Small land-based identifiers like Tidal B M 14 and the label Cher on the main island offer specific points of reference for researchers tracing maritime surveying history or the exact placement of early coastal markers.