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Buttress Range

Buttress Range

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Lake and Peninsula
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 3218 ft (980.85 m)
About

12 mi W of Mount Katmai. Extends NW of Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, on Alaska Peninsula, in Katmai National Monument, 10 mi. W of Mount Katmai, Aleutian Range. 10 miles long.

History of Buttress Range

Descriptive name given in 1919 of the National Geographic Society by R. F. Griggs as Buttress Mountain and mapped as Buttress Range.