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1959 Map of McCarthy C-2

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of McCarthy C-2
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

White River dominates the northern boundary of this high-altitude landscape, where the braided channels of the glacier-fed waterway wrap around North Fork Island. This region is defined by immense glacial movement and extreme vertical relief, anchored by the massive bulk of Mount Sulzer at the center. To the south, the sprawling Giffin Glacier is mapped in meticulous detail, including numerous Crevasses that indicate the active flow of ice through the mountain passes.

Evidence of human activity is sparse, limited to a cluster of Cabins situated near the riverbanks north of the island. These structures represent rare outposts in a wilderness drained by steep waterways like Sheep Creek and Wiley Creek. The topography captured here reflects a transitional era in Alaskan survey history, where photogrammetric methods from 1957 were used to map a terrain so challenging that much of the map was not field checked, preserving a raw view of the territory.