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1961 Map of Mount Fairweather D-5

Name: 1961 Topographic Map of Mount Fairweather D-5
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1975
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1975

About this map

The Canada United States border cuts across high mountain peaks in the early 1960s, marking the northern reaches of the Fairweather Range. This survey captures a landscape dominated by massive ice fields and steep terrain within Glacier Bay National Monument, where the international boundary is defined by prominent summits like Mount Fairweather Boundary Peak 164 and Mount Quincy Adams Boundary Peak 163.

Extensive glacial systems flow toward the coast and interior valleys, including the Grand Plateau Glacier and the Sea Otter Glacier in the northwest. To the south and east, the terrain drops into Desolation Valley and follows the paths of the Johns Hopkins Glacier and Lituya Glacier. The map serves as a primary record of the glaciated topography before the monument was reorganized as a national park, showing the precise placement of boundary markers such as Mt Root Boundary Peak 165.