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Mount Bendeleben, called Aniyaayuq in Iñupiaq, is the highest peak in the Bendeleben Mountains on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula and rises prominently at the range’s western end, about 37 miles southwest of Imuruk Lake. It received its English name in 1866 from members of the Western Union Telegraph exploring expedition, who honored their leader, Baron Otto von Bendeleben. In 1921, U.S. Geological Survey geologist A. H. Brooks recorded the Native name as Ahneyiyuk, meaning “looks like a big one.” Though not the peninsula’s highest mountain, it is often regarded as its best-known peak and serves as a striking landmark in western Alaska.
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White Mountain, Alaska · United States