Alaska–Townsend

Artist

Kenneth Townsend, PA, USA

Creation Date

1985

Scale and Size

Original art scale and size: Not known
Published map scale: 1:17,000,000
Cropped digital art size: 18.82 × 11.69 cm at 400 DPI,
2,963 × 1,841 pixels

Terms of Use

No use restrictions. The shaded relief is in the public domain. Space permitting on your map, please cite Kenneth Townsend as the source.

Georeferencing

Albers Equal-Area Conic Projection
Standard Parallel 55N and 65N
Central meridian: 147W
Latitude of projection origin: 50N
NAD83 Datum

Map Compatibility

Relief art modified by Tom Patterson to register with 1:10 million Natural Earth vectors: www.naturalearthdata.com
The relief download includes a Natural Earth coast shape file with embedded projection information.

Release Date

September 2011

Additional Information

R. R. Donnelley and Sons Cartographic Services commissioned the creation of this shaded relief under the supervision of Herwig G. Schutzler. The Cartographic Services unit at R.R. Donnelley is now defunct. Upon going out of business, Donnelley transferred ownership of the relief art to GeoSystems Global Corporation, which later became MapQuest, owned by AOL. When MapQuest sold off their custom cartography unit, GeoNova, a successor company, became the new owners of the relief. GeoNova has since failed. Herwig G. Schutzler then donated this relief to the U.S. Library of Congress, where it is permanently stored along with other Donnelley relief art.