1951 Map of Mt. Katmai B-2

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Kukak Volcano dominates the northeastern corner of this 1951 topographic survey, towering over a landscape defined by massive ice fields and active glaciation. The sheet captures the sheer scale of the Aleutian Range within the Katmai National Park, where the Hook Glacier and Serpent Tongue Glacier carve through the high peaks of Mt Denison and Mt Stellar. This is a terrain of absolute wilderness, lacking any roads or trails, showing the raw geological character of the Alaska Peninsula before modern satellite mapping. To the southeast, the land drops precipitously into Kukak Bay, illustrating the dramatic transition from volcanic summits to the tidal waters of the Pacific. The map reflects a moment in the mid-twentieth century when these remote stretches of the Katmai Wilderness were being documented via photogrammetric methods from aerial surveys.