Mount Wilbur (Alaska)
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Mount Wilbur is a Script error: No such module "convert". peak of the Fairweather Range, the southernmost part of the Saint Elias Mountains. It lies approximately Template:Cvt southeast of Mount Fairweather and Template:Cvt northwest of Mount Crillon. It is set within Glacier Bay National Park. The peak is the higher of a pair of peaks, Mounts Wilbur and Orville, named after the Wright brothers who invented the airplane, the form of transportation that contributed greatly to the development of Alaska.[1] The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1967 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[1]
Though not a particularly high peak in absolute terms, Mount Wilbur does stand quite high above local terrain, due to its proximity to the ocean: the summit is only Template:Cvt from tidewater at the head of Lituya Bay to the southwest.
Gallery
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Mts. Orville and Wilbur
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Mount Orville (left) and Mount Wilbur (right)
References
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External links
- Mount Wilbur weather: Mountain-forecast.com