Vol. 40 No. 2 (1992)
Research Article

Placenames in Paradise: Robert Marshall and the Naming of the Alaska Wilderness

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  • Terrence M. Cole
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1179/nam.1992.40.2.99

Published 1992-06-01

Copyright (c) 1992 Maney

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Abstract

Abstract

Pioneer conservationist Robert Marshall was the first explorer to compile a detailed, accurate map of some 15,000 square miles in the central Brooks Range of northern Alaska. Altogether, during four expeditions to the Upper Koyukuk between 1929 and 1939, Marshall added a total of 169 placenames to the map of Alaska, one of the largest number of names given or recorded by an individual in the twentieth century.

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