1950 Map of Teller

About this map

The Seward Peninsula meets the edge of the world here at Cape Prince of Wales, where the USSR United States maritime boundary cuts through the Bering Strait. This 1950s record documents a remote arctic landscape defined by traditional settlements and isolated industrial outposts. Native villages such as Wales and Brevig Mission stand alongside Tin City and the coastal town of Teller. Further inland, the map captures the transition of the Kuzitrin River through the Imuruk Basin, a region once marked by seasonal camps and gold-era travel. Insights into early transport are preserved via the Winter Trail snaking north, while the presence of Pelazuk (Aband) and Marys Igloo provides evidence of shifting settlement patterns along the peninsula’s western reaches and the lower reaches of the Agiapuk River.