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Sourdough Peak

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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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on its south slope. The peak's name was used by early prospectors as reported in 1908 by the
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is a 6,201-foot (1,890 meter) mountain summit located at the southern edge of the
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zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. Winds coming off the
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with them. Sourdough Peak's nearest higher neighbor is
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Elevation
Prominence
Isolation
Coordinates
61°24′45″N 142°44′10″W / 61.412504°N 142.7361°W / 61.412504; -142.7361
Sourdough Peak is located in Alaska
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park
Valdez-Cordova Borough
Alaska
United States
Parent range
Wrangell Mountains
Topo map
USGS
Wrangell Mountains
U.S. state
Alaska
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
McCarthy
Nizina River
rock glacier
USGS
sourdough starter
Porphyry Mountain

Köppen climate classification
subarctic climate
Gulf of Alaska
orographic lift

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