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Mount O-Neel

Quick Facts

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Location

60 ° 42' 11.999" N,
144 ° 49' 53" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Cordova

Elevation

5932 ft (1808.07 m)

Mount O-Neel in Detail.

About

at head of Grinnell Glacier, 37 mi. N of Katalla, Chugach Mts.

History

Named about 1910 by Lawrence Martin, for A. C. O'Neel, "Chief Bridge Engineer, Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, who built a $1,500,000 steel bridge near the base of this mountain in 1909-1910 across the Copper River, which is as large as the Mississippi at New Orleans, and never lost a man."

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