The Alaska Highway Development

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Bucksar, Richard G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1974
• Subjects: Buoys; Fast ice; Ice forecasting; Mathematical models; Movement; Sea ice; M'Clure Strait; N.W.T; Parry Channel; N.W.T./Nunavut; Viscount Melville Sound; Canada; Haines Junction; Melville Sound; Nunavut; Parry; Yukon; Arctic; Whitehorse; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65909

Thirty-one years ago, in November of 1942, the Alaska Highway was opened for use as a military road. Built as a long-range defense measure, it was assumed that improvements would continue following World War II. Since that time, there have been many proposals to pave the road, but they have been blo...