1953 Map of Marshall B-7

About this map

Clarence Rhode National Wildlife Range Area No 1 dominates this 1953 landscape, preserving a vast expanse of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The terrain is a complex network of thousands of small lakes and winding waterways, where land and water merge into a mosaic of wetlands. The Manokinak River and Azun River meander through the southern portion of the quadrangle, illustrating the fluid nature of the delta as it shifts across the tundra. An Indefinite Boundary underscores the difficulty of mapping such a saturated, ever-changing environment during the early 1950s. This survey, compiled from aerial photographs taken in 1951 and 1952, offers a detailed view of the hydrologic patterns before many of these wildlife areas were reorganized and renamed.