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Mount Wright is a 5,054-foot peak in the eastern Alaska Panhandle within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, rising on the east side of Muir Inlet near Glacier Bay. Part of the Saint Elias Mountains, it was named in 1891 by Dr. Harry Fielding Reid for George Frederick Wright, who spent time in the Glacier Bay area in 1886. Its slopes drain into the Glacier Bay Basin, and the mountain stands amid a landscape shaped by nearby inlets, glaciers, and ranges. The area’s subarctic climate brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and severe wind chill, and the mountain’s slopes support a habitat with a high population of mountain goats.
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