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Title: The Encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Chisholm, Hugh, 1866-1924
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries Encyclopedias
Publisher: Cambridge, Eng., New York : At the University press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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departments of the government, have fully establishedthe main features of its physiography. It has mountains,plateaus and lowlands on a grand scale. In a broad way, thelarger features of topography correspond with those of thewestern states. There is a Pacific Mountain system, a CentralPlateau region, a Rocky Mountain system, and a Great Plainsregion. These four divisions are weU marked, and show theclose geographic relation of this area to the southern part of thecontinent. The orographic features of the Pacific Mountainsystem trend parallel to the coast-line of the Gulf of Alaska,changing with this at the great bend beyond the N., and of thePanhandle from S.E. and N.W. to N.E. and S.W. and runningthrough the Alaska Peninsula. The Pacific Mountain systemincludes four ranges. The Coast Range of the Panhandleattains a width of 100 m., but has no weU-defined crest hne.The range is characterized by the uniformity of summit levelsbetween 5000 and 6000 ft. Continuing the Coast Range, with
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ALASKA 473 which it is closely associated—the Chilkat river lies betweenthem—is the St Elias Range (a term now used to include notonly the mountains between Cross Sound and Mt. St Elias, butthe Chugach, Kenai, Skolai and Nutzotin mountains); among itspeaks are: Mt. Crillon (15,000 ft.), Mt. Fairweather (i5,2goft.),Mt. Vancouver (15,666 ft.), Mt. Wrangell (17,500 ft., an activevolcano) in the Nutzotin Mountains, Mt. St Elias (18,024 ft)and, in Canadian territory, Mt. Logan (io,S30 ft.). The AleutianRange, of whose crest the Aleutian Islands are remnants, fills outthe system near the coast. The .\laskan Range, connecting withthe Xutzotin and Skolai branches of the St Elias Range, liesa little farther inland; it is splendidly marked by many snowypeaks, including Mt. Foraker (17,000 ft.) and Mt. McKinlcy.The latter, which on the W. rises abruptly out of a marshycountry, offers the obstacles of magnificent, inaccessible granitecliffs and large glaciers to the mountaineer; it is the lof

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