wrangell st elias national park was established as a national monument on december 1, 1978.
wrangell st elias national park was established as a national monument on december 1, 1978.
when was wrangell st elias national park established as a national monument?
december 1, 1978
wrangell–st. elias national monument was designated on december 1, 1978, by president jimmy carter using the antiquities act, pending final legislation to resolve the allotment of public lands in alaska. establishment as a national park and preserve followed the passage of the alaska national interest lands conservation act in 1980. the park has long, extremely cold winters and a short summer season. plate tectonics are responsible for the uplift of the mountain ranges that cross the park. the park's extreme high point is mount saint elias at , the second tallest mountain in both the united states and canada. the park has been shaped by the competing forces of volcanism and glaciation. mount wrangell is an active volcano, one of several volcanoes in the western wrangell mountains. in the st. elias range, mount churchill has erupted explosively within the past 2,000 years. the park's glacial features include malaspina glacier, the largest piedmont glacier in north america, hubbard glacier, the longest tidewater glacier in alaska, and nabesna glacier, the world's longest valley glacier. the bagley icefield covers much of the park's interior, which includes 60% of the permanently ice-covered terrain in alaska. at the center of the park, the boomtown of kennecott exploited one of the world's richest deposits of copper from 1903 to 1938, exposed by and in part incorporated into kennicott glacier. the abandoned mine buildings and mills comprise a national historic landmark district.
wrangell–st. elias national park and preserve
national register of historic places listings in wrangell–st. elias national park and preserve









































this is a list of the national register of historic places listings in wrangell–st. elias national park and preserve.









































this is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the national register of historic places in wrangell-st. elias national park and preserve, alaska, united states. the locations of national register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a google map.
national register of historic places listings in wrangell–st. elias national park and preserve