Elias chain

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Elias chain
Elias chain (outlined in red)

Elias chain (outlined in red)

Highest peak Mount Logan ( 5959  m )
location Yukon Territory , British Columbia (Canada), Alaska (USA)
Elias chain (Alaska)
Elias chain
Coordinates 60 ° 34 ′  N , 140 ° 24 ′  W Coordinates: 60 ° 34 ′  N , 140 ° 24 ′  W
Mount Saint Elias

Mount Saint Elias

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The Elias chain ( English Saint Elias Mountains or Saint Elias Range ) is the highest, heavily glaciated part of the North American coastal mountains , extends over 400 km from southeast Alaska via Yukon to the extreme northwest of British Columbia and forms the watershed between the Yukon River and the Pacific Ocean . Some of the Wrangell-St.-Elias and Kluane National Parks and Glacier Bay National Park are entirely in the Elias chain.

With an extension of 380 km after the ice caps of the poles, the glaciers of the Elias chain form the largest ice field on earth. The Malaspina Glacier , which flows into the Gulf of Alaska, is the largest glacier in North America. The Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada and after the Denali is the second highest in North America.

The mountain is named after the prophet Elias .

Mountains of the Elias chain
mountain Height (m) location comment
Mount Logan 5959 Yukon Highest mountain in Canada
Mount Saint Elias 5489 Alaska / Yukon # 2 in Canada and the US
Mount Lucania 5226 Yukon # 3 in Canada
King Peak 5173 Yukon # 4 in Canada
Mount Steele 5073 Yukon # 5 in Canada
Mount Bona 5005 Alaska
Mount Wood 4842 Yukon
Mount Vancouver 4812 Yukon
Mount Churchill 4766 Alaska
Mount Slaggard 4742 Yukon
Mount Macaulay 4690 Yukon
Mount Fairweather 4671 British Columbia
Mount Hubbard 4557 Alaska / Yukon
Mount Bear 4520 Alaska
Mount Walsh 4507 Yukon
Mount Alverstone 4420 Alaska / Yukon
University Peak 4410 Alaska
McArthur Peak 4389 Yukon
Mount Augusta 4289 Alaska / Yukon

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