Information About

Mount Dagelet

Quick Facts

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Location

58 ° 35' 48.998" N,
137 ° 10' 26" W

Region

Hoonah-Angoon (CA)

Nearest City

Pelican

Elevation

9406 ft (2866.95 m)

Mount Dagelet in Detail.

About

in Fairweather Range, 4.6 mi. S of Mount Crillon, in Glacier Bay National Monument 72 mi. NW of Hoonah, St. Elias Mts.

History

Named by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1874 for Lepaute Dagelet, astronomer on LaPEROUSES expedition of 1786. The name was published as Mount DAgelet in the 1883 Coast Pilot (p. 202). The first ascent was made july 29, 1933 by W. S. Child, C. S. Houston, and H. A. Carter (Farguhar, 1959, p. 217).