Loading map...

1951 Map of Selawik D-6

Name: 1951 Topographic Map of Selawik D-6
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1983
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1983

About this map

Hotham Inlet and the sprawling waterways of the Kobuk River Delta dominate this 1951 topographic study of the Alaskan coast. The landscape is a complex network of wetlands and interconnected water bodies, including Ekichuk Lake, Potoniek Lake, and Nulvororok Lake, all situated within what would later be designated as the Selawik National Wildlife Refuge.

Navigational channels like the Melvin Channel, Riley Channel, and Eavok Channel weave through the marshland, illustrating the aqueous geography of the Northwest Arctic. Human presence is sparse, marked only by a solitary Cabin and surveyed points such as VABM Center and VABM Riley. The map, revised in the early 1980s to include modern refuge boundaries, captures a wilderness shaped by the Og Riveg River and the coastal tides before more contemporary climate shifts altered these northern shorelines.