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Devil Mountain, known in Iñupiaq as Iġġiasaaq, is a small shield volcano on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, south of the Devil Mountain Lakes and northwest of Deering near the Arctic Circle. Rising only about 794 or 797 feet, it is modest in height, but it belongs to the Espenberg volcanic field, a broader Pleistocene landscape of maars and shield volcanoes at the peninsula’s northern tip. Its significance lies in being part of this remote Arctic volcanic region rather than standing as an isolated peak. Its recorded European name dates to 1816, when Lieutenant Otto von Kotzebue called it Teufelsberg, meaning Devil’s Mountain.
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Shishmaref, Alaska · United States