Cockedhat Mountain is a

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in the

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, and is one of the tallest mountains in the central

Brooks Range The Brooks Range (Gwich’in language, Gwich'in: ''Gwazhał'') is a mountain range in far northern North America stretching some from west to east across northern Alaska into Canada's Yukon Territory. Reaching a peak elevation of on Mount Isto, ...

. Located in the midst of the protected wilderness of Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Cockedhat Mountain is approximately 27 air miles from the village of

Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska Anaktuvuk Pass (, , or , ) is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 282 at the 2000 census and 324 as of the 2010 census. History Anaktuvuk Pass was named after the Anaktuvuk River. ''Anaktuvuk'' is t ...

. Cockedhat Mountain was so named on account of its unusual outline.

Topography

Visitors to Cockedhat have remarked on its "high, jagged peaks wrapped in clouds," and its "vast, sheer mountain walls." The summit of Cockedhat Mountain rises at the intersection of four steep, long ridges. Cirque

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, rare in the central

, sit in large bowls to the North, East, and West, and a small hanging glacier clings to the peak's steep western face. Only the peak's southern bowl remains free of year-round snow and ice.

References

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