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Mount Wrangell

Volcano in Alaska, United States

Also known as Mt. Wrangell

Elevation: 4,317 m
Prominence: 1,711 m
Range: Wrangell Mountains
Country: United States
Located in: Alaska

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Mount Wrangell, 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 Mountains as well as 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.

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Made from material: andesite
Significant event: first ascent(1908)
Volcano observatory: Alaska Volcano Observatory
Located in protected area: Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
Named after: Ferdinand von Wrangel

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62.0069, -144.0158OpenStreetMap ↗

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