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Wrangell Mountains
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Wrangell Mountains
The
Wrangell Mountains
are a high mountain range of eastern
Alaska
in the
United States
. Much of the range is included in
Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve
. The Wrangell Mountains are almost entirely volcanic in origin, and they include the second and third highest volcanoes in the United States,
Mount Blackburn
and
Mount Sanford
. The range takes its name from
Mount Wrangell
, which is one of the largest
andesite
shield volcanoes
in the world, and also the only presently active volcano in the range. The Wrangell Mountains comprise most of the
Wrangell Volcanic Field
, which also extends into the neighboring
Saint Elias Mountains
and the
Yukon Territory
in
Canada
.
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