Porter Peak

Porter Peak is a mountain in southeastern Alaska above Thomas Bay, north-northeast of Petersburg, on Tongass National Forest land. Though not especially high by Alaska standards, it rises steeply from tidewater in less than two miles, making it a striking part of the local landscape. Reported by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1964 and later officially adopted in federal naming, its name fits a Thomas Bay pattern tied to naval history. It honors U.S. Navy admiral David Dixon Porter. The mountain’s subpolar oceanic climate brings heavy precipitation, snowy winters, mild summers, and conditions that support a small unnamed glacier on its north slope.

Kupreanof, Alaska · United States