The Chilkat Range is a
mountain range
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in
Haines Borough
Haines Borough is a home-rule borough located in the state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,080, down from 2,508 in 2010.
Geography
The borough has a total area of , of which is land and (14.9%) is water.
Adjacent boro ...
and the
Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in the
U.S. state
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of
Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S ...
,
west of the city of
Juneau.
The Chilkat Range is one of the principal divisors between Haines Borough and
Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. It also separates
Chilkat Inlet and
Lynn Canal
Lynn Canal is an inlet (not an artificial canal) into the mainland of southeast Alaska.
Lynn Canal runs about from the inlets of the Chilkat River south to Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage. At over in depth, Lynn Canal is the deepest fjor ...
from
Muir Inlet in
Glacier Bay. The northern boundary is generally considered to be the
Klehini River. The unnamed
ice field
An ice field (also spelled icefield) is a mass of interconnected valley glaciers (also called mountain glaciers or alpine glaciers) on a mountain mass with protruding rock ridges or summits. They are often found in the colder climates and highe ...
in the range also feeds many glaciers including the
Davidson and Rainbow Glaciers.
It was named Chilkat Mountains in 1879 by the
USGS
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for the Chilkat subdivision of the
Tlingit People
The Tlingit ( or ; also spelled Tlinkit) are indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America. Their language is the Tlingit language (natively , pronounced ), . These mountains were renamed as the Chilkat Range in 1891.
See also
*
Mount Golub
Mount Golub is a prominent mountain summit located in the Chilkat Range of the Saint Elias Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. This peak is situated northwest of Juneau, and west of Lynn Canal, on land managed by Tongass National Forest. ...
References
Landforms of Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska
Mountain ranges of Alaska
Mountains of Haines Borough, Alaska
Mountains of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
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