Mount Eldridge is a mountain in the Alaska Range, in
Denali National Park and Preserve
Denali National Park and Preserve, formerly known as Mount McKinley National Park, is a List of national parks of the United States, United States national park and National preserve, preserve located in Interior Alaska, centered on Denali (feder ...
. Mount Eldridge lies to the northeast of
Denali
Denali (), federally designated as Mount McKinley, is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in the world from base to peak on land, measuring . On p. 20 of Helm ...
, overlooking
Eldridge Glacier. The mountain is a large massif with several summits along a ridge. Mount Eldridge was named in 1953 by Bradford Washburn for
U.S. Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on March ...
explorer George H. Eldridge.
See also
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Mountain peaks of Alaska
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Alaska.
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
#The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summi ...
References
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Alaska Range
Mountains of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Denali National Park and Preserve
Three-thousanders of the United States