1953 Map of Valdez A-4

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Richardson Highway cuts through the northern mountains of this 1950s interior landscape, following the valley of the Tiekel River. This corridor represents a vital transportation link in a region dominated by glacial movement and extreme vertical relief. To the south, the massive Cleave Creek Glacier and Woodworth Glacier dominate the terrain, their blue-tinted contours indicating the massive scale of the ice fields feeding into the Tasnuna River.