Information About

Mount Edison

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Location

61 ° 24' 23" N,
147 ° 11' 26.999" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Elevation

11188 ft (3410.1 m)

Mount Edison in Detail.

About

Located in Dora Keen Range, near head of Columbia Glacier, 36 miles northwest of Valdez, Chugach Mountains.

History

Named by members of the Chugach Mountains Expedition in 1955 for Thomas Alva Edison, 1847-1931, American inventor; reported by Nielsen (1963, p135).

Topo Maps

Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage B-1 (1960), Anchorage B-1 (1960), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1979), Anchorage B-1 NW (2013),

Places Near Mount Edison

Glaciers:

Second Branch Columbia Glacier (not official),

Mountains:

Aspero Peak, Blackcliff Mountain, Mount Cardozo, Columbia Peak, Mount Defiant, Mount Edison, Mount Einstein, Mount Elusive, Mount Fafnir, Finland Peak, Mount Gilbert Lewis, Mount Glenn, Mount Langmuir, Mount Michelson, Norway Peak, Mount Siegfried, Sweden Peak, Mount Thor, Mount Valhalla, Mount Witherspoon,

Peaks: