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Mount Becharof is a 3,146-foot mountain on the southeastern coast of the Alaska Peninsula in the Aleutian Range, within Becharof National Wildlife Refuge. Though not especially high for Alaska, it rises steeply from tidewater at Kanatak Lagoon, gaining more than 3,000 feet in just 1.2 miles and giving it striking local relief. Water from its slopes drains toward Kanatak Creek, Portage Bay, and Kanatak Lagoon. Its name, published in the 1880s and later officially adopted, comes from nearby Becharof Lake, named in 1868 for Dmitry Bocharov, an Imperial Russian Navy navigator who explored Kodiak in 1788. The mountain lies in a cold, wet subpolar oceanic climate.
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