Information About

Mount Rasmuson

Quick Facts

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Location

59 ° 47' 10" N,
139 ° 25' 40.001" W

Region

Yakutat

Nearest City

Yakutat

Elevation

3691 ft (1125.02 m)

Mount Rasmuson in Detail.

About

On Puget Peninsula, 4.3 km (2.7 mi) SE of Mount Hendrickson and 32 km (20 mi) NE of Yakutat; in Tongass NF, St. Elias Mts.

History

Named in 1905 by Ralph S. Tarr and Lawrence Martin, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for Edward A. Rasmuson (1882-1949), teacher at the government school at Yakutat and missionary of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America.