Hi Guys,
I need to find a detailed real-world map of some of the areas covered by RTMM, initially the area covered by Tongass Fjords X, specifically Etolin Island and the area of the Stikine River and mountains around Wrangell (and Mount Flemer) on the Alaskan side of the border. I've tried all the usual suspects that I can think of (Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, MapCarta, USGS, etc.) and have also bought a paper copy of Delorme's Alaska Atlas and Gazeteer, which has helped a fair bit but still isn't detailed enough. I need something that gives the names of lakes, creeks, mountains, etc. and I'm hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction. I'd be happy to buy a suitable paper map so it wouldn't necessarily need to be an online source (I think I've exhausted that avenue already)...I just need to know what to buy and where from.
I tried the USGS topographical maps online, and whilst they're detailed in terms of contour lines, etc., names in the online versions I've seen are mostly lacking. I'm lucky that, for the UK, I have the Ordnance Survey maps which, if you get the most detailed ones, give the names of just about every blade of grass and slight mound of earth. That's what I'm after for Alaska, but I'm not even sure that type of map exists.
I was beginning to think many lakes and mountains in Alaska don't have names, then I saw a TV programme about Quiet Lake (north west of Anchorage) so I know that, despite it being a small(ish) lake, it has a name though I've not found any map that shows its name; you can get a C-185 floatplane into it. The same programme featured a mountain named "Eighty-Ten" because it's 8010 feet high, so now I'm back wondering if many of the features I'm searching for names for don't in fact have names, but on the other hand, I've found a small map of Ketchikan showing the VFR reporting points for PAKT, which mostly seem to be the sort of geographical features I'm looking for, so surely this information exists somewhere? Goodness, I'm confused.
Any information will be most gratefully received and very much appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Sam