List of the major 4000-meter summits of Alaska facts for kids

Further information: List of mountain peaks of Alaska

Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of the United States and North America. Denali is the third most topographically prominent and third most topographically isolated summit on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua.

The following sortable table comprises the 23 mountain peaks of the U.S. State of Alaska with at least 4000 meters (13,123 feet) of topographic elevation and at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence.

Topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface. The topographic prominence of a summit is the elevation difference between that summit and the highest or key col to a higher summit. The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum great-circle distance to a point of equal elevation.

This article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least 100 meters (328.1 feet) of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a summit with at least 500 meters (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. An ultra-prominent summit is a summit with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence. There are 65 ultra-prominent summits in Alaska.

If an elevation or prominence is calculated as a range of values, the arithmetic mean is shown.

Major 4000-meter summits

Of the 104 major 4000-meter summits of the United States, the following 23 rise in Alaska. Five of these peaks lie on the international border with Yukon and one lies on the international border with British Columbia.

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  Denali is the highest mountain peak of the State of Alaska, the United States of America, and all of North America.

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  Mount Saint Elias on the boundary between Alaska and the Yukon is the second highest peak of both the United States and Canada.

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  Mount Foraker is the third highest major mountain peak of Alaska.

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  Mount Blackburn is the highest peak of the Wrangell Mountains.

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  Mount Sanford is the second highest peak of the Wrangell Mountains.

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  Mount Fairweather on the boundary between Alaska and British Columbia is the second most topographically prominent mountain peak of Alaska.

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  Mount Bear in the Saint Elias Mountains.

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  The massive shield volcano Mount Wrangell in the Wrangell Mountains.