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Mount Wrangell shield volcano, Alaska, USA

Mount Wrangell, seen from the Edgerton Highway, Alaska, USA. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (the largest National Park in the USA) is honored by UNESCO as part of an International Biosphere Reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mount Wrangell (14,163 feet) is the largest andesite shield volcano in North America, the park's only active volcano, releasing occasional steam plumes. Shield volcanoes have more frequent, but less violent eruptions than other types. Flowing northward from the great ice fields of Mount Wrangell, the Copper Glacier melts into the Copper River which flows northward, then westward along the end of the Wrangell Range, then southward to the Gulf of Alaska near Cordova, cutting through the coastal barrier of the Chugach Mountains, and marking most of the Parks western boundary.

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Mount Wrangell, seen from the Edgerton Highway, Alaska, USA. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (the largest National Park in the USA) is honored by UNESCO as part of an International Biosphere Reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Mount Wrangell (14,163 feet) is the largest andesite shield volcano in North America, the park's only active volcano, releasing occasional steam plumes. Shield volcanoes have more frequent, but less violent eruptions than other types. Flowing northward from the great ice fields of Mount Wrangell, the Copper Glacier melts into the Copper River which flows northward, then westward along the end of the Wrangell Range, then southward to the Gulf of Alaska near Cordova, cutting through the coastal barrier of the Chugach Mountains, and marking most of the Parks western boundary.
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