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Icy Peak is a 4,550-foot mountain on the south coast of the Alaska Peninsula, within the Aleutian Range and the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge. Near Cape Kayakliut and Wide Bay, it rises very steeply, climbing more than 4,500 feet above tidewater in about two miles. Its runoff and glacial melt drain north into Kialagvik Creek and south toward Glacier Creek and the Agripina River. A subpolar oceanic climate brings cold, snowy winters, cool summers, and frequent North Pacific moisture, supporting about 2.5 square miles of unnamed glaciers and ice. Its descriptive local name appeared in the early 1880s and was later officially adopted.
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Ugashik, Alaska · United States
