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Mount Burkett is a steep 9,730-foot peak in southeastern Alaska’s Coast Mountains, within Tongass National Forest near the Canada–United States border. In a wet, glaciated tundra climate influenced by Gulf of Alaska storms, its runoff drains toward Thomas Bay and nearby ice features include Baird Glacier and the Stikine Icecap. The mountain was named for Lieutenant Eugene F. Burkett of the U.S. Navy, who served on Alaskan aerial survey expeditions in 1926 and 1929 and died in a plane crash on official duty in January 1930; the name was adopted that year. The main summit’s first recorded ascent came in 1965, and Burkett Needle was first climbed in 1964.
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