Alaska range on map. Near the centre of the range in denali national park and preserve is the highest point in north america. Click here for a full screen map. The range is the highest in the world outside.
The peaks of the alaska range are new jagged and heavily glaciated. Box 115526 1255 w. The name eventually became alaska range through local use.
Alaska range region the alaska range is a towering scythe of peaks that slice the landmass of alaska in an arc east to west paralleling the contour of the gulf of alaska. 8th street juneau ak 99811 5526. Alaska brooks range the brooks range is a mountain range in far northern north america stretching some 700 miles from west to east across northern alaska into canada s yukon territory.
Major geographical regions north to south include the arctic coastal plain north slope brooks mountain range a central upland dissected by the yukon river the massive alaska mountain range the pacific coastal areas and eastern inside passage and the alaskan peninsula and aleutian islands of the southwest. To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below which show the parent siblings and children of the alaska range. In 1849 constantin grewingk applied the name t schigmit to this mountain range.
Alaska department of fish and game po. The alaska range is a relatively narrow 400 mile long 650 km mountain range in the southcentral region of the us. A map made by the united states land office 1869 calls the southwestern part of the alaska range chigmit mountains and the northeastern part beaver mountains baker 1906 p.
Denali mount mckinley which reaches an elevation of 20310 feet 6190 metres. The range extends generally northward and eastward in an arc for about 400 miles 650 km from the aleutian range to the boundary of yukon territory canada in southern alaska us. Range borders shown on map are an approximation and are not authoritative.