Mount Wrangell
Mount Wrangell, in Ahtna K’ełt’aeni or K’ełedi when erupting, is a massive shield volcano located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, United States. The shield rises over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) above the Copper River to its southwest. Its volume is over 220 cubic miles (920 km3), making it more than twice as massive as Mount Shasta in California, the largest stratovolcano by volume in the Cascades. It is part of the Wrangell Volcanic Field, which extends for more than 250 kilometers (160 mi) across Southcentral Alaska into the Yukon Territory in Canada, and has an eruptive history spanning the time from Pleistocene to Holocene.
| Mount Wrangell | |
|---|---|
Mount Wrangell, 1987 | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 14,163 ft (4,317 m) NAVD88 |
| Prominence | 5,613 ft (1,711 m) |
| Isolation | 14.79 mi (23.8 km) |
| Listing | |
| Coordinates | 62°00′21″N 144°01′10″W |
| Naming | |
| Etymology | Ferdinand von Wrangel |
| Geography | |
Mount Wrangell Alaska | |
| Location | Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S. |
| Parent range | Wrangell Mountains |
| Topo map | USGS Gulkana A-1 |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Mountain type | Shield volcano |
| Volcanic arc/belt | Wrangell Volcanic Field |
| Last eruption | March-April 1930 |
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