Mount Wrangell

Mount Wrangell

Mount Wrangell, (Ahtna: K’ełt’aeni, or K’ełedi when erupting) is a massive shield volcano located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, United States. The shield rises over above the Copper River to its southwest. Its volume is over , making it more than twice as massive as Mount Shasta in California, the largest stratovolcano by volume in the Cascades. It is part of the Wrangell Mountains as well as the Wrangell Volcanic Field, which extends for more than across Southcentral Alaska into the Yukon Territory in Canada, and has an eruptive history spanning the time from Pleistocene to Holocene.

Details

Age
Pleistocene
Topo
USGS Gulkana A-1
Type
Shield volcano
Range
Wrangell Mountains
Listing
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Location
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S.
Isolation
14.79 mi (23.8 km)
Elevation Ft
14,163
Last Eruption
March–April 1930
Prominence Ft
5613
Volcanic Field
Wrangell Volcanic Field
Elevation System
NAVD88