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

Example Sentences

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

The plane would fly ahead after fueling the helicopter to perform weather reconnaissance, leading the helicopter away from storms, through several passes of the Alaska Range and to Diomede.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2023

The warming climate forced organizers to move the starting line 290 miles north from Willow to Fairbanks in 2003, 2015 and 2017 because of a lack of snow in the Alaska Range.

From Washington Times • Mar. 1, 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

Roman unwraps some steaks from a moose he shot in the Alaska Range last September and lays them across the fire on a blackened grill, the grill McCandless used for broiling his game.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer