Placenames in Paradise: Robert Marshall and the Naming of the Alaska Wilderness
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 placen...
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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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| spelling | doaj.art-1ffe737154924b26a52ce6cda08f9d132022-12-22T00:52:34ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghNames0027-77381756-22791992-06-0140210.1179/nam.1992.40.2.99Placenames in Paradise: Robert Marshall and the Naming of the Alaska WildernessTerrence M. ColeAbstract 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. http://ans-names.pitt.edu/ans/article/view/1323 |
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| title_short | Placenames in Paradise: Robert Marshall and the Naming of the Alaska Wilderness |
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