Mount Salisbury is a peak in the Fairweather Range of

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, six miles (10 km) southeast of

Mount Fairweather Mount Fairweather (or ''Tsalxaan'' in the Tlingit language) is a mountain located east of the Pacific Ocean on the Canada–United States border. With an elevation of , it is the tallest mountain in British Columbia and the seventh-tallest mou ...

. Its east slopes feed one of the northern branches of the

Johns Hopkins Glacier Johns Hopkins Glacier ( Lingít: ''Tsalxaan Niyaadé Sít’'') is a long glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the east slopes of Lituya Mountain and Mount Salisbury, and trends eas ...

, which flows into Glacier Bay. On its western side is a large cirque, shared with Mount Fairweather, Mount Quincy Adams, and Lituya Mountain, which heads the

Fairweather Glacier Fairweather Glacier is a long glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the west slope of Mount Salisbury and continues west to its 1961 terminus 0.2 miles (300 m) east of Cape Fairweath ...

; this flows almost to the

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coast at

Cape Fairweather Cape Fairweather is a cape in Antarctica that is high and is ice-covered except for rocky exposures along its southeast and east sides. It lies midway between Drygalski Glacier and Evans Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land and divides Norde ...

. Though not exceptional in terms of absolute elevation, Mount Salisbury does possess great vertical relief over local terrain: for example, the southwest side of the mountain drops over to the Johns Hopkins Glacier in only five miles. Mount Salisbury is not often climbed, partly due to its proximity to the higher and better-known Mount Fairweather, and partly due to difficult access and the typically bad weather that this range possesses.

Etymology

The mountain was named by W. O. Field, Jr. and

William Skinner Cooper William Skinner Cooper (25 August 1884 – 8 October 1978) was an American ecologist. Cooper received his B.S. in 1906 from Alma College in Michigan. In 1909, he entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he studied with Henry Cha ...

in 1936 to honor Rollin D. Salisbury (1858–1922), American geologist and professor of geology at the University of Chicago from 1892 until his death. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1937 by the

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Gallery

File:Glacier Bay Alaska - Flickr - gailhampshire (1).jpg, Mount Salisbury to right File:Mount Salisbury.jpg, Northeast aspect File:Mount Salisbury east aspect.jpg, East aspect

References

External links

* Weather
Mount Salisbury

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