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Mount Wright
Mount Wright from Glacier Bay.jpg
Mount Wright from southwest
Highest point
Elevation 5,054 feet (1,540 m)
Prominence 1,850 feet (560 m)
Parent peak Mount Case
Listing Mountains of Alaska
Geography
Mount Wright is located in Alaska
Mount Wright
Mount Wright
Location in Alaska
Location Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, United States
Parent range Alsek Ranges
Saint Elias Mountains
Topo map USGS Mount Fairweather D-1

Mount Wright is a 5,054-foot (1,540 m) mountain located in the eastern Alaskan panhandle, on the east side of Muir Inlet, just north of Glacier Bay within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

Location

Mount Wright is south of Adams Inlet, Dirt Gulch, and Dirt Glacier, to the east of Garforth Island in Muir Inlet, west of White Glacier, and the Chilkat Range and 52 miles (84 km) northwest of Hoonah, Saint Elias Mountains.

History

Mount Wright was named by Dr. Harry Fielding Reid in 1891 after George Frederick Wright who spent some time in the Glacier Bay area in 1886. Forty-three miles to the west is another mountain also called Mount Wright.

Wright Case
Mt. Wright centered with Mt. Case behind right

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Wright has a subarctic climate (Dfc) with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into Glacier Bay Basin.

Fauna

The area has a high population of mountain goats.

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