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Mount Furuhelm is a 3,620 foot (1,104 meters) peak located on
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just east and adjacent to Peak 5390 in
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. It is located at . Mount Furuhelm was named for
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(known in
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as Ivan Vasiliyevich Furugelm), who was
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of
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from 1859 to 1863. Mount Furuhelm actually has both an east and west peak less than a quarter mile apart, with the west peak being a mere ten feet higher at (3,620 feet) than the eastern one (3,610 feet).


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* One-thousanders of the United States Mountains of Sitka, Alaska {{SitkaAK-geo-stub