Mount Palmer is a
mountain
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in the
Chugach Mountains
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in the
U.S. state
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of
Alaska
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. It is located within the
Municipality of Anchorage
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.
It is named in honor of George W. Palmer, a trader who operated a store near this area in the early 1900s.
References
Mountains of Anchorage, Alaska
Two-thousanders of the United States
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