Alaska Range

American  

noun

1. a mountain range in southern Alaska. Highest peak, Denali, 20,300 feet (6,190 meters).

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Alaska Range British  

noun

1. a mountain range in S central Alaska. Highest peak: Mount McKinley, 6194 m (20 320 ft)

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Etymology

Origin of Alaska Range

First recorded in 1905–10

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Alaska Range

The federal government ultimately anointed the towering peak in the Alaska Range “Mt. McKinley” in 1917, honoring the president who held office from 1897 to his assassination in 1901.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025

Alaska Range Dairy, which opened in 2021, became the last in-state fresh milk dairy when Palmer’s Havemeister Dairy shuttered that same year.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2023

Riley Soderquist has skied down Andean volcanoes in South America, traveled to the Alaska Range and made a first descent of the steep north face of Capitol Peak in Colorado’s Elk Mountains.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2021

The snowcapped mountains of the Alaska Range are in the background.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

On July 5, however, the Teklanika was at full flood, swollen with rain and snowmelt from glaciers high in the Alaska Range, running cold and fast.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer