Nature
Mount Reed, a 1,929-foot mountain on Adak Island in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, stands within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge between Shagak Bay and the Bay of Islands. Though not especially high, it rises steeply above nearby terrain and is known for harsh subpolar weather. Named in 1934 for a local resident buried on or near the peak and officially adopted in 1936, it has a strongly local origin. Its greatest importance is botanical: it is the only known wild habitat of the Aleutian shield fern, whose 142 recorded clumps there make up the species' entire known wild population.
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Adak, Alaska · United States
