The Kigluaik Mountains (''Kiglawait'' in
Inupiaq) are a mountain chain running east to west on western
Alaska's
Seward Peninsula.
Its highest point is the summit of
Mount Osborn, at above sea level. This remote range is home to numerous isolated mountain lakes which have been shown to contain unique subspecies of
Arctic char. Located in the
Nome Census Area, Kigluaik Mountains are noted as the location of
Grand Union Glacier
Grand may refer to:
People with the name
* Grand (surname)
* Grand L. Bush (born 1955), American actor
* Grand Mixer DXT, American turntablist
* Grand Puba (born 1966), American rapper
Places
* Grand, Oklahoma
* Grand, Vosges, village and commun ...
, the only remaining active
glacier in western Alaska.
[Parker E. Calkin, Darrell S. Kaufman, Bruce J. Przybyl, W. Brett Whitford, and Brian J. Pec]
Glacier Regimes, Periglacial Landforms, and Holocene Climate Change in the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska
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References
Landforms of the Seward Peninsula
Mountain ranges of Alaska
Mountains of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
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