The Washington Post recently reported on efforts to update Alaska maps to modern standards. The piece highlighted the efforts of one Anchorage company, in particular, and -- to illustrate the ...

A NASA mission to study Alaska's unique terrain is providing scientists with their first detailed look at the changing topography of one of Earth's most active volcanic regions.

While the U.S. Geological Survey is constantly refining its work in the lower 48 states, the terrain data in Alaska is more than 50 years old, much of it hand-sketched from black-and-white stereo ...

Dear Ann Landers: I am a resident of Alaska. On every map I’ve seen, our great state has been shrunk and relocated down in the Gulf of Mexico. If that’s not bad enough, many statistical… ...

Alaska is one of the most poorly mapped places on Earth. In fact, topographic maps of Mars and the moon are typically more detailed than those of the Arctic state — until now. This week, the ...

They also built a continent-wide seamless terrain map in the Antarctic, and plan to release an Arctic version this winter. The polar regions are especially important because the effects of climate ...

Follow adventurer Andrew Skurka as he skis, hikes, and rafts 4,720 miles through eight national parks, two major mountain ranges, and some of North America’s wildest rivers in Alaska and the ...