1953 Map of Marshall B-6

About this map

Ingakslugwat Hills rise as a series of distinctive landforms above a complex network of unnamed lakes and wetlands in this remote coastal Alaska landscape. The terrain is defined by a dense concentration of water bodies and marshland, much of which is encompassed by the Clarence Rhode National Wildlife Range Area No 1. The 1953 mapping by the Army Map Service and Geological Survey reveals a territory largely devoid of permanent human settlements or infrastructure at the time, instead prioritizing the documentation of geographic boundaries and topographical elevations. An Indefinite Boundary transects the sheet, highlighting the challenges of surveying this watery environment, while the unmarked land lines were predetermined by the Bureau of Land Management rather than field-checked on the ground.