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Mount Merriam is a 5,083-foot peak in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in southeast Alaska, in the Alsek Ranges of the Saint Elias Mountains. Though moderate in elevation for Alaska, it rises from tidewater in less than three miles, making it a prominent landmark above Glacier Bay Basin and one of the state's more prominent peaks. Named in 1941 for zoologist Clinton Hart Merriam, who had joined the 1899 Harriman Alaska expedition, the mountain reflects the region's scientific exploration history. Its subarctic climate brings heavy rain and snowfall that sustain hanging glaciers on its slopes, and it is most favorably viewed or climbed in May and June.
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