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Tanada Peak is a remote 9,358-foot mountain in Alaska’s Wrangell Mountains, within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, where it stands prominently above nearby valleys and remains visible from the Nabesna Road. Rather than an active cone, it is the eroded remnant of Tanada Volcano, an andesitic shield volcano that began forming about 1.5 million years ago, collapsed into a caldera before one million years ago, and last erupted about 970,000 years ago. Ice and erosion have heavily reshaped the mountain, leaving only a small glacier within the caldera. Its name, applied in 1902, is tied to nearby Tanada Lake and an Ahtna term meaning “moving water lake.”
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Nabesna, Alaska · United States
