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      • The park is named after the Wrangell and St. Elias Mountain ranges. These mountains form the rugged backbone of the park. The Wrangell Mountains were named after Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (1796-1870), who was a Russian Naval officer, arctic explorer, and government administrator.
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  2. Mount Erie, elevation 1,273 feet, located in the west central area of Fidalgo Island, was named by Wilkes for the Battle of Lake Erie, won by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812. Mount Erie is composed primarily of 167 million year old diorite, a hard igneous rock favored by rock

  3. Denali–Mount McKinley naming dispute. The name of the highest mountain in North America became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali". The mountain had been unofficially named Mount McKinley in 1896 by a gold prospector, and ...

  4. Apr 4, 2017 · Crow articulates more than just a one-sided sadness. Traveling through an entire spectrum of bereavement, Elverum is mystified at how someone can exist and then be irrevocably gone; he refuses to ...

  5. A Crow Looked at Me is the eighth studio album by Mount Eerie, a solo project of the American musician Phil Elverum. Released in 2017, it was composed in the aftermath of his 35-year-old wife Geneviève Castrée 's diagnosis with pancreatic cancer in 2015, and her death in July 2016. Elverum wrote and recorded the songs over a six-week period ...

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    Denali (/ d ə ˈ n ɑː l i /; also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in the world from base-to-peak on land, measuring 18,000 ft (5,500 m), and Earth's highest mountain north of 43°N.

  7. Mar 14, 2018 · The headline called Mount Eerie “the saddest musician in the world,” leading Phil Elverum, who records as Mount Eerie, to tweet: “I guess I’m the saddest in the world? Yeah maybe ...

  8. Dec 29, 2015 · Where Did The Park Get Its Name? The park is named after the Wrangell and St. Elias Mountain ranges. These mountains form the rugged backbone of the park. The Wrangell Mountains were named after Baron Ferdinand Petrovich von Wrangel (1796-1870), who was a Russian Naval officer, arctic explorer, and government administrator. He was a governor of ...

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