Bendeleben Mountains

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The Bendeleben Mountains are a 110 km long and 45 km wide mountain range in the center of the Seward Peninsula in northwest Alaska.

With the 1137 m high Mount Bendeleben they reach their greatest height in the West. They consist mainly of granite and were glaciated during the last glacial periods. Due to the glacier they were eroded into round bumps. Be Subdivided the. Bendeleben Mountains of the valleys of the Rivers Niukluk, the Pargon Creeks and the Boston Creeks, which flow into the Fish River The Fish River rises in the east of Bendeleben Mountains and drains to the southwest in the Norton Sound, an inlet of the Bering Sea. The soils are permafrost. The vegetation is dominated by arctic dwarf shrubs.

Were named the Bendeleben Mountains to Ottfried of Bendeleben, the large part of the Seward Peninsula for the first time represented cartographically in 1866 as a participant and later as head of the Western Telegraph Expedition. Since Ottfried of Bendeleben spent his youth in the Thuringian town of Bendeleben, there is a relation between the mountain range and the village.

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