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Mount Fairweather (or Tsal x aan in the Tlingit language [3]) is 20 km (12 mi) east of the Pacific Ocean on the Canada–United States border between Alaska and western British Columbia and has an elevation of 4,653 metres (15,266 ft). Most of the mountain lies within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the City and Borough of Yakutat ...
The Mt. Fairweather (officially gazetted as Fairweather Mountain in Canada but referred to as Mount Fairweather), is located 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of the Pacific Ocean in the Glacier Bay region. While most of the mountain lies within the City and Borough of Yakutat, the summit is also in Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, British Columbia ...
George Fairweather Moonlight was born in 1832 in Glenbervie in Kincardineshire, Scotland. He was the son of James Moonlight, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Jane (née Lindsay). [1] [2] He never received a formal education; rather, from about the age of nine until he was old enough to go to sea he worked on local herring boats.
NOAAS Fairweather (S 220) in Alaskan waters with Mount Fairweather in the background. Fairweather is named for Mount Fairweather in Alaska. She was constructed for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey as a "medium survey ship " (MSS) by Aerojet-General Shipyards at Jacksonville, Florida. She was laid down on 12 August 1963 [1] and launched on 15 ...
The Canada–US border approaches to within 15 miles (24 km) of the ocean in the St. Elias Mountains at Mount Fairweather, the park's tallest peak at 15,300 feet (4,700 m), transitioning to the Fairweather Range from there southwards.
Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc that consists of lava flows, debris flows, and pyroclastic ejecta and flows. Its early volcanic deposits are estimated at more than 840,000 years old and are part of the Lily Formation (about 2.9 million to 840,000 years ago).
A small peak which rises over 1,400 metres (4,600 ft) high in the Duncan Mountains. This feature which stands 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) northeast of Mount Fairweather has a distinctive snow band across the south face. Named by the Southern Party of New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1963-64.
George Fayerweather III (c. 1802– 13 November 1869) was an American blacksmith and activist for abolitionism. He was of mixed Narragansett and African descent from South Kingstown , Rhode Island , United States.