Which are the highest peaks in the US Arctic? Fodar settles the debate

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: M. Nolan, K. DesLauriers
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2016
• Subjects: geo; envir; Arctic; Canada; Hubley; Climate change; glacier*; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-1245-2016; http://www.the-cryosphere.net/10/1245/2016/tc-10-1245-2016.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/19ffb0769cb44a918aee69483bce96f4

Though an outstanding achievement for their time, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) topographic maps of the eastern Alaskan Arctic nonetheless contain significant errors, and in this paper we address one of them. Specifically, USGS maps of different scale made in the late 1950s alternate be...