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Mount Gannett, a 9,629-foot peak in the Chugach Mountains east of Anchorage, rises above a heavily glaciated landscape where several major ice flows meet. Named in 1911 by Lawrence Martin of the U.S. Geological Survey for Henry Gannett, it feeds the Knik, Colony, and Gannett glaciers from different slopes and valleys. The mountain is also linked to a major aviation disaster: on November 22, 1952, a United States Air Force Douglas C-124 Globemaster II crashed on its southern slopes, killing all 52 aboard. In 2012, remains of the aircraft and victims began emerging at the foot of the Colony Glacier as the ice carried them downslope.
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Knik River, Alaska · United States
