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3 unusual facts about Chugach Mountains


Chugach Mountains

in 1898 United States Army Captain William R. Abercrombie spelled the name "Chugatch" and applied it to the mountains.

Maynard L. Taylor, Jr.

He went on to found the community of Basher in what would eventually come to be known as the Stuckagain Heights neighborhood of Anchorage, in the foothills of the Chugach Mountains.

Yakutat Block

The Yakutat Block is bounded on the northeast by the Fairweather Fault, and on the north by a system of thrust and possibly strike-slip faults in the Chugach Mountains and St. Elias Mountains.



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