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These maps were provided by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) [1] and archived to Wikimedia Commons. They are scanned (by the USGS) images of the original paper maps that were published from 1948 to 1997. The information contained in the table below was transcribed from the paper map images displayed in the Image Array.
Highest point; Elevation: 8,852 ft (2,698 m) [1] Coordinates: 2]: Geography; Location: North Slope Borough, Alaska: Parent range: Brooks Range: Topo map: USGS Mount Michelson B-1: Climbing; First ascent: April 23, 1957 by John P. Thomson and R. E. "Pete" Isto [3]: Easiest route: South Face to East Ridge: glacier/snow climb, Alaska Grade 1 [3]: Mount Michelson is a high peak in the Romanzof ...
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [ b ] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of Alaska by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
The United States remains virtually the only developed country in the world without a standardized civilian topographic map series in the standard 1:25,000 or 1:50,000 metric scales, making coordination difficult in border regions (the U.S. military does issue 1:50,000 scale topo maps of the continental United States, though only for use by ...
Interactive map of Devils Thumb: Location: Southeastern Alaska, U.S. and northwestern British Columbia, Canada: Parent range: Stikine Icecap, Boundary Ranges: Topo map(s) USGS Sumdum A-2 [1] NTS 104F1 Dominion Mountain [2] Climbing; First ascent: 1946 by Fred Beckey, Clifford Schmidtke, Bob Craig: Easiest route: rock/snow/ice climb
In addition to matching the Topozone URL's, the website offers free download of GeoTIFFs, which Topozone had only offered for a premium. TopoQuest started adding Canadian 1:50K scale topographic maps in July 2008, and USGS 1:100K and 1:250K scale topographic maps in March 2009.
Mount Edgecumbe (Tlingit: Lʼúx, Russian: Эджком) is located at the southern end of Kruzof Island, Alaska, about 15 miles (24 km) west of Sitka.The dormant volcano is about 9.9 miles (16 km) east of the Queen Charlotte Fault that separates the North American and Pacific Plates, and is the highest point in the Mount Edgecumbe volcanic field, an area of about 100 square miles (260 km 2 ...
Mount Hayes is the highest mountain in the eastern Alaska Range, in the U.S. state of Alaska. Despite not being a fourteener, it is one of the largest peaks in the United States in terms of rise above local terrain. For example, the Northeast Face rises 8,000 feet (2,440 m) in approximately 2 miles (3.2 km).