Mount Blackburn | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 16,390 ft (5,000 m)[1] |
Prominence | 11,640 ft (3,550 m)[1] |
Isolation | 60.7 mi (97.7 km)[1] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 61°43′54″N 143°25′59″W / 61.73167°N 143.43306°W |
Naming | |
Etymology | Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn |
Geography | |
Location | Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S. |
Parent range | Wrangell Mountains |
Topo map | USGS McCarthy C-7 |
Geology | |
Rock age | 3.4 to 5 million years |
Mountain type | Shield volcano |
Last eruption | 3.4 million years ago |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1958 (true summit) Gilbert, Wahlstrom, Gmoser, Bitterlich, and Blumer |
Easiest route | North Ridge: snow/glacier climb |
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. The mountain is an old, eroded shield volcano, the second-highest volcano in the U.S. behind Mount Bona and the fifth-highest in North America. It was named in 1885 by Lt. Henry T. Allen of the U.S. Army after Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, a U.S. senator from Kentucky.[2] It is located in the heart of Wrangell – St. Elias National Park, the largest national park in the country.
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