The Field Atlas

All terrains

State chapter

Wild places in Alaska

Alaska has 5 plates in this atlas, on alpine, forest, and glacier ground.

Denali, Alaska — The massif over painted foothills

FrontispieceDenali, Alaska

Plates
5
Terrains
Alpine, Forest, Glacier

Alaska

The plates

The massif over painted foothills
Plate XX

Denali

alpine

Alaska Range, Alaska

A mountain so large it makes its own weather.

63.1° N · 151.0° WOpen plate →

A blue berg in a Kenai inlet
Plate XXI

Kenai Fjords

glacier

Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Where a mountain of ice still meets the sea.

59.9° N · 149.8° WOpen plate →

A tidewater face meeting the bay
Plate XLVI

Glacier Bay

glacier

Fairweather Range, Alaska

A bay that was solid ice two centuries ago.

58.7° N · 136.9° WOpen plate →

Moss and spruce in the Tongass understory
Plate LXXVIII

Tongass

forest

Alexander Archipelago, Alaska

A rainforest the size of West Virginia, written in fog.

55.6° N · 130.7° WOpen plate →

A blue berg under Chugach peaks, Prince William Sound
Plate CCLXXXVI

Chugach

alpine

Prince William Sound and Portage, Chugach NF, Alaska

A forest that still calves into a sound.

60.8° N · 148.8° WOpen plate →