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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 ...
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.
Hubbard Glacier (Lingít: Sít' Tlein) is a glacier located in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in eastern Alaska and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada, and named after Gardiner Hubbard.
Alaska: Census Area: Copper River: Protected area: Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve: Parent range: Wrangell Mountains [2] Topo map: USGS Nabesna B-6: Geology; Rock age: Pleistocene: Mountain type: Eroded shield volcano [5] Rock type: Andesite, Dacite [5] Volcanic field: Wrangell Volcanic Field: Last eruption: 970,000 years ago
Porphyry Mountain is a prominent 6,375-foot (1,943 meter) mountain summit located in the Wrangell Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, immediately southeast of Kennecott, 4 mi (6 km) northeast of McCarthy, and, 5 mi (8 km) northwest of Sourdough Peak.
In 2007 Gerald Salmina directed an Austrian documentary film, Mount St. Elias, about a team of skier/mountaineers determined to make "the planet's longest skiing descent" by ascending the mountain and then skiing nearly all 18,000 feet down to the Gulf of Alaska; the movie finished editing and underwent limited release in 2009. The climbers ...
Fireweed Mountain is a prominent 6,956-foot (2,120 meter) mountain summit located in the Wrangell Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, immediately west of the terminus of the Kennicott Glacier, and 5 mi (8 km) west-northwest of McCarthy.
Mount Allen is a prominent glaciated mountain set in the Wrangell Mountains. [3] The remote peak is located 13.5 miles (21.7 km) north-northwest of Chisana, Alaska, in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Chisana River which is a tributary of the Tanana River.