Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Wrangell Mountains are a high mountain range of eastern Alaska in the United States.Much of the range is included in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve.The Wrangell Mountains are almost entirely volcanic in origin, and they include the second and third highest volcanoes in the United States, Mount Blackburn and Mount Sanford.
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in south central Alaska.The park, the largest in the United States, covers the Wrangell Mountains and a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the ...
Mount Wrangell, (Ahtna: K’ełt’aeni, or K’ełedi when erupting) [3] is a massive shield volcano located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, United States. The shield rises over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) above the Copper River to its southwest.
Mount Blackburn (Ahtna: K’ats’i Tl’aadi) is the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska in the United States.It is the fifth-highest peak [a] in the United States and the twelfth-highest peak in North America.
Mount Drum is a stratovolcano in the Wrangell Mountains of east-central Alaska in the United States.It is located at the extreme western end of the Wrangells, 18 miles (29 km) west-southwest of Mount Sanford and the same distance west-northwest of Mount Wrangell.
Tanada Peak is located in the Wrangell Mountains and within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, with the west slope in the park and east slope in the preserve. Tanada ranks as the 21st-highest peak in the preserve and 53rd-highest in the park. [6]
The bulk of the Wrangell Volcanic Field lies within the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska, but the field also extends eastwards into the neighboring Saint Elias Mountains and the Yukon Territory. The east–west length of the field is over 200 mile (320 km), while the width reaches up to 80 miles (130 km) in the central Wrangell Mountains.
Mount Sanford is a shield volcano [3] in the Wrangell Volcanic Field, in eastern Alaska near the Copper River.It is the sixth highest mountain in the United States and the third highest volcano behind Mount Bona and Mount Blackburn.