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

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.