Kenai Mountains

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The Harding Icefield in the Kenai Mountains

The Kenai Mountains are a mountain range of North American coastal mountains on the Kenai Peninsula of the U.S. state of Alaska. They extend over 230 km from north to south and 430 km from east to west from the southern tip of the peninsula to the Chugach Mountains and cover an area of 26,512 km ². The highest mountain is the Truuli peak with 2015 m.

The Sargent and Harding Icefield located in the Kenai Mountains. Many glaciers, such as the Bear or the Exit Glacier, in these Inlandseismassen have their accumulation zone. The melted water flows, among other things, the rivers Kenai, Russian Resurrection and the Gulf of Alaska, the Cook Inlet or Prince William Sound.

Mountains of the Kenai Mountains

  • Truuli Peak (2015 m)
  • Isthmus Peak (1991 m)
  • Peak 6500 (1981 m)
  • Andy Simons Mountain (1953 m)
  • McCarty Peak (1951 m)
  • Sheep Mountain (1922 m)
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