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Donnelly Dome is a mountain in interior Alaska, west of the Richardson Highway about 18 miles south of Delta Junction. In the Middle Tanana language it is called Łuu Tahwdzeey’, and in Ahtna, Łuu Tahwdzaeye’. Its current name was established in the 1920s from nearby Donnelly, then a telegraph station; earlier the summit was known as Delta Dome after the Delta River. Glaciation shaped the mountain between about 70,000 and 100,000 years ago, when it was entirely ice covered and classified as a fleigberg. The surrounding land now belongs to the United States Army as part of Fort Wainwright’s Donnelly Training Area, and hiking access requires a Recreation Access Permit.
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