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Mount Michelson

Mount Michelson is a mountain at the head of the , 34 miles NW of Valdez in the of Alaska, USA. The mountain was named around 1957 for Albert Abraham Michelson by members of the Chugach Mountains Expedition sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 8,156 feet
  • Description: mountain in United States of America
  • Also known as: “Mount Michelson (Chugach Mountains)”

Mount Michelson

Latitude
61.28101° or 61° 16′ 52″ north
Longitude
-147.23031° or 147° 13′ 49″ west
Elevation
8,156 feet (2,486 metres)
Open location code
93HJ7QJ9+CV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11661672643
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5868768
Wiki­data ID
Q8526207
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Mount Michelson” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Mount Michelson (bukid sa Estados Unidos, Valdez-Cordova Census Area)”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Michelson”
  • Dutch: “Mount Michelson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ميتشيلسون (امريكا)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ميتشيلسون”
  • Ladin: “Mount Michelson”
  • Polish: “Mount Michelson”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ میچیلسن”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Michelson”. Photo: Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0.