I wish I’d had this collection when I was a kid! They are great for seeing the rise and fall of development around the bay. The difference between high and low tide is also striking. If you’re a boater thinking of visiting Funter, take a look at some of the low-tide images before you take a short-cut, or you may be the next boat that someone has to pull off the sandbar! (Also think of the wind direction and bottom type, the anchors shown as moorage locations on the nautical charts are kind of another local joke… people end up dragging anchor if they use those spots in the wrong winds). Some of the aerials are very large files, click them if you’d like to view the originals, but give them a few seconds to fully load (they may look grainy or pixelated at first). I have collected these from several sources. The aerial photos are public domain data, produced by the Department of the Interior / United States Geological Survey. Nautical Charts were produced by the US Coast and Geodetic Survey (later NOAA), and some can be found at ġ914 nautical chart (essentially the same as the 1905 edition):ġ921 USGS map showing some of the mining claims on the South Shore:ġ948 aerial photo (click to open detailed original scale): Most of the topographic maps are products of the USGS, and can be found at I’ll try to highlight a few of these in a later post.ġ951 vicinity map (USGS terrain-shaded topo):ġ962 map by the Overseas Mineral Cooperation Association (a Japanese mineral investment group): The 1948 aerial above is cool because it shows many of the old docks and waterfront structures that are now gone. I find it interesting that they show the cabins near Clear Point as well as the cabin between the creeks at Crab Cove.ġ979 CIR aerial, taken from a NASA U-2 Spyplane as part of the Alaska High Altitude Aerial Photo project: I have highlighted structures shown on the OMCA map in red.
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