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The 100 highest summits of Alaska with at least 500 meters of topographic prominence; Rank Mountain peak Mountain range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Denali [1] [2] [e] Alaska Range: 20,310 ft 6190.5 m: 20,146 ft 6141 m: 4,630 mi 7,451 km 2
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The Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed the name of the mountain to Denali in 1975, which was how it was called locally. [ 7 ] [ 29 ] However, a request in 1975 from the Alaska state legislature to the United States Board on Geographic Names to do the same at the federal level was blocked by Ohio congressman Ralph Regula , whose district ...
(Fairweather Mountain) Alaska British Columbia: Saint Elias Mountains: 4671 m 15,325 ft: 3961 m 12,995 ft: 200 km 124.4 mi 19 Mount Hubbard [48] [49] Alaska Yukon: Saint Elias Mountains: 4557 m 14,951 ft: 2457 m 8,061 ft: 34.4 km 21.3 mi
Mount Hunter or Begguya is a mountain in Denali National Park in Alaska. It is approximately eight miles (13 km) south of Denali, the highest peak in North America. "Begguya" means child (of Denali) in the Dena'ina language. Mount Hunter is the third-highest major peak in the Alaska Range.
Of the 403 major 3000-meter summits of greater North America, 299 are located in the United States (excluding three in HawaiĘ»i), 67 in Canada, 30 in México, and eight in Guatemala, four in Greenland, two in Costa Rica, and one each in Panamá and the Dominican Republic.
The name eventually became "Alaska Range" through local use. In 1849 Constantin Grewingk applied the name "Tschigmit" to this mountain range. A map made by the United States General Land Office in 1869 calls the southwestern part of the Alaska Range the "Chigmit Mountains" and the northeastern part the "Beaver Mountains". [5]
See also category Mountains of Alaska Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. A. Alaska Range (2 C, 101 P) Aleutian Range (65 ...