1958 Map of Lake Clark A-1

About this map

Iliamna Volcano dominates the southern landscape of this Alaskan wilderness as documented in the late 1950s. The map reveals an environment defined by dynamic glacial movement, with massive ice sheets like the Tuxedni Glacier and Johnson Glacier carving deep valleys. Numerous crevasses are explicitly marked across these frozen expanses, indicating the hazardous nature of the terrain at the time of the survey. The drainage network is established by the Tuxedni River and various forks, including the West Fork and Left Fork. Topography is further defined by prominent peaks such as Mt Nick and the sweeping reach of the Double Glacier. This survey records a moment in the mid-century when these remote land lines remained unsurveyed and unmarked by the Bureau of Land Management, existing primarily as a raw physical landscape of ice and stone.