Kenai Mountains
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 Kenai Mountains (outlined in red) |
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| Highest peak | Truuli Peak ( 2015 m ) | |
| location | Alaska (USA) | |
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| Coordinates | 60 ° 6 ′ N , 149 ° 59 ′ W | |
| surface | 26,512 km² | |
 The Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains |
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.jpg) Turnagain Arm and Kenai Mountains |
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The Kenai Mountains are a mountain range of the North American coastal mountains on the Kenai Peninsula of the US state Alaska .
They extend over 230 km in north-south and 430 km in east-west direction from the southern tip of the peninsula to the Chugach Mountains and cover an area of 26,512 km². The highest mountain is the Truuli Peak with 2015 m .
The Sargent and Harding Icefields are in the Kenai Mountains. Many glaciers, such as the Bear or the Exit Glacier , have their nutrient areas in these inland ice sheets. The meltwater flows across the Kenai , Russian and Resurrection rivers to the Gulf of Alaska , the Cook Inlet and the Prince William Sound .
Mountains of the Kenai Mountains
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