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

He has ascended immense peaks from the Alaska Range to K2 in Pakistan’s Karakoram range, climbed through storms and had near misses with avalanches.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 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

It is a hot, humid afternoon, and the river is livid with runoff from the fast-melting snowpack that still blankets the glaciers in the higher elevations of the Alaska Range.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer