1954 Map of Iliamna D-8

About this map

The Koktuli River dominates this interior Alaskan landscape, shown here as a complex network of braided channels and wetlands that transition into the Stuyahok River and Kaskanak River systems. This 1950s survey, mapped by the Army Map Service using aerial photography, documents a terrain almost entirely devoid of human infrastructure, focusing instead on the hydrography and topographic elevation. The surveyor notes indicate that land lines represent unsurveyed and unmarked locations predetermined by the Bureau of Land Management, highlighting the remote nature of this region before any modern development or roads were established. The map provides a critical record of natural drainage patterns and unmapped wilderness in the Lake and Peninsula area during the mid-twentieth century.