Mount Wrangell

Mount Wrangell
Mount Wrangell seen from the west
Highest point
Elevation14,163 ft (4,317 m)[1]
NAVD88
Prominence5,613 ft (1,711 m)[1]
Isolation14.79 mi (23.8 km)[1]
Listing
Coordinates62°00′21″N 144°01′10″W / 62.00572°N 144.01935°W / 62.00572; -144.01935[1]
Naming
EtymologyFerdinand von Wrangel
Geography
Mount Wrangell is located in Alaska
Mount Wrangell
Mount Wrangell
Alaska
LocationWrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S.
Parent rangeWrangell Mountains
Topo mapUSGS Gulkana A-1
Geology
Age of rockPleistocene
Mountain typeShield volcano
Volcanic arc/beltWrangell Volcanic Field
Last eruptionMarch–April 1930[2]

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. Its volume is over 220 cubic miles (920 km3), making it more than twice as massive as Mount Shasta in California, the largest stratovolcano by volume in the Cascades. It is part of the Wrangell Volcanic Field, which extends for more than 250 kilometers (160 mi) across Southcentral Alaska into the Yukon Territory in Canada, and has an eruptive history spanning the time from Pleistocene to Holocene.

  1. ^ a b c d "Mount Wrangell, Alaska". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-01-06.
  2. ^ Alaska Volcano Observatory, Mount Wrangell activity - 1930, Motyka, 1983, Retrieved Dec. 8. 2021.
  3. ^ Smelcer, John. "Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains in Ahtna Country" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2014.