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Mount Edison is an eleven thousand four hundred fifty-foot glaciated summit in southern Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, northwest of Valdez, on Chugach National Forest land near the head of Columbia Glacier. Part of the Dora Keen Range, it helps form the divide between Harvard Glacier and Yale Glacier and lies northwest of Mount Einstein. Members of the Chugach Mountains Expedition named it in 1955, and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names later made the name official in honor of American inventor Thomas Edison. The peak is known for its remote high-mountain setting, severe subarctic weather, heavy precipitation, and surrounding glaciers sustained by moisture from the Gulf of Alaska.
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