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Alaska Range

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Alaska Range, S central Alaska, rising to the highest mountain in North America, Mt. McKinley McKinley, Mount, peak, 20,320 ft (6,194 m) high, S central Alaska, in the Alaska Range; highest point in North America. Permanent snowfields cover more than half the mountain and feed numerous glaciers. Known locally as Denali ["the Great One"], Mt.
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 (20,320 ft/6,194 m). The range divides S central Alaska from the great plateau of the interior. Mt. Spurr, an 11,070-ft-high (3,376-m) volcano 80 mi (129 km) W of Anchorage erupted several times in 1992 after a dormancy of 39 years.

Alaska Range

Mountain range, southern Alaska, U.S. A segment of the Pacific mountain system, it extends in an arc from the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula to the Yukon Territory boundary. Mount McKinley, near the centre of the range, in Denali National Park and Preserve, is the highest point in North America. Many nearby peaks exceed 13,000 ft (4,000 m), including Mounts Silverthrone, Hunter, Hayes, and Foraker. The range is crossed at Isabel Pass by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.


Alaska Range
a mountain range in S central Alaska. Highest peak: Mount McKinley, 6194 m (20 320 ft.)


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All the data suggest that the sudden motion of tall mountains in the Alaska Range, which lies along the Denali fault, disturbed the air and created the infrasonic pulses, says Wilson.
Denali National Park & Preserve, which was originally founded in 1917 as Mount McKinley National Park, encompasses 7,370 square miles along the Alaska range.
 
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