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Mount Fairweather [a] (or Tsalxaan in the Tlingit language [4]) is a mountain located 20 km (12 mi) east of the Pacific Ocean on the Canada–United States border. With an elevation of 4,653 metres (15,266 ft), it is the tallest mountain in British Columbia and the seventh-tallest mountain in Alaska .
Fifty Years of Alaskan Statehood is located in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains. [1] It is set within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and is situated six miles (9.7 km) northwest of Mount Bertha.
Allen Carpé (December 20, 1894 – May 9, 1932) was an American engineer and mountaineer who is the namesake of Mount Carpe in Alaska. [1] [2] He was the first person to have reached the summit of Mount Bona and Mount Fairweather.
The Fairweather Range is the unofficial name for a mountain range located in the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is the southernmost range of the Saint Elias Mountains .
NOAAS Fairweather (S 220) in Alaskan waters with Mount Fairweather in the background. Fairweather is named for Mount Fairweather in Alaska. She was constructed for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey as a "medium survey ship" (MSS) by Aerojet-General Shipyards at Jacksonville, Florida. She was laid down on 12 August 1963 [1] and launched on 15 ...
Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America.. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it ...
Lituya Mountain is not often climbed, partly due to its proximity to the higher and better-known Mount Fairweather, and partly due to difficult access and bad weather in the Fairweather Range. The Lituya name was published in 1852 as G(ora) L'tua , meaning "Lituya Mountain" in Russian by Mikhail Tebenkov of the Imperial Russian Navy .
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Aleutka is located in a marine subpolar climate zone, with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. [4] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Saint Elias Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.