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Icy Peak (Alaska)

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is significant as the summit rises over 4,500 feet (1,372 meters) above tidewater of Wide Bay in approximately two miles (3.2 km). The mountain's local descriptive name was published by the
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and glacial meltwater from the mountain drains north into Kialagvik Creek, and south into Glacier Creek and Agripina River.
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Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification".
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Mountain Glaciers of the Northern Hemisphere: Alaska and adjacent Canada. Arctic Canada. North Atlantic Islands
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zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. Weather systems coming off the
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in the early 1880s and the toponym has been officially adopted by the
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Index


Elevation
Prominence
Parent peak
Mount Kialagvik
Isolation
Coordinates
57°15′01″N 156°32′09″W / 57.2502573°N 156.5357253°W / 57.2502573; -156.5357253
Icy Peak is located in Alaska
Alaska
Kodiak Island Borough
Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge
Parent range
Aleutian Range
Topo map
USGS
summit
Alaska
Aleutian Range
Alaska Peninsula
Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge
runoff
Topographic relief
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
United States Board on Geographic Names
Köppen climate classification
subpolar oceanic climate
North Pacific
orographic lift
List of mountain peaks of Alaska

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