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Mount Foraker

mountain, Alaska, United States
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  • The Alaskan mountain ranges and the Mackenzie and Yukon river basins and their drainage networks.
    Alaskan mountains
    / Physiography of the southern ranges

    …a spectacular companion peak is Mount Foraker (17,400 feet [5,304 meters]), just to the southwest. Four great individual mountain masses dominate the Alaska group, divided by a number of low passes and river valleys, several of which provide routes of travel across the mountains. Great valley glaciers radiate from those…

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    …a spectacular companion peak is Mount Foraker (17,400 feet [5,304 meters]), just to the southwest. Four great individual mountain masses dominate the Alaska group, divided by a number of low passes and river valleys, several of which provide routes of travel across the mountains. Great valley glaciers radiate from those…

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