1955 Map of Mount Michelson C-5

About this map

The Kavik River defines this portion of Alaska's North Slope, carving a winding path through the Brooks Range foothills as it flows toward the Arctic coastal plain. Based on 1955 aerial photography and field annotations by the Army Map Service, the landscape is recorded here as a series of intricate contour lines and drainage patterns before modern industrial infrastructure reached this latitude. The topography is marked by significant survey points including Δ Cop 2172 and Δ Ignek 1734, which serve as primary reference landmarks in this high-latitude terrain. This edition preserves the unsurveyed and unmarked locations predetermined by the Bureau of Land Management for the Umiat Meridian. The presence of numerous ponds and marshy areas in the northern reach of the sheet illustrates the permafrost-driven hydrology of the region during the mid-century.