Kigluaik Mountains

The Kigluaik Mountains are a forty-two mile mountain chain running east to west on western Alaska's Seward Peninsula. It's highest point is the summit of Mount Osborn, at 4,714 feet (1437 meters) above sea level. This remote range is home to numerous isolated mountain lakes which have been shown to contain unique subspecies of Arctic char. [ Webb, Joeseph, [http://www.blm.gov/nstc/resourcenotes/rn21.html A Newly Discovered Population of Arctic Char of the Kigluaik Mountains of Alaska] , BLM-NSTC] Located in the Nome Census Area, [gnis|1404642] Kigluaik Mountains are noted as the location of Grand Union Glacier, the only remaining active glacier in western Alaska. [Parker E. Calkin, Darrell S. Kaufman, Bruce J. Przybyl, W. Brett Whitford, and Brian J. Peck [http://instaar.colorado.edu/AAAR/volume30/30-2abs.html Glacier Regimes, Periglacial Landforms, and Holocene Climate Change in the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska] ]

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