Mount Burkett is a physical feature (summit) in Petersburg Borough.
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Feature Name: | Mount Burkett |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Summit |
Description: | 1.5 mi. W of Alaska-Canada boundary, 6 mi. NE of Devils Thumb and 116 mi. E of Sitka, Coast Mts. |
History: | Named by Julian D. Sears, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), for Lieutenant Eugene F. Burkett, U.S. Navy (USN), a member of the Alaskan Aerial Survey Expedition of the Navy Department in 1926 and second in command of the Alaska Aerial Survey Detachment in 1929; Burkett was killed in an airplane crash in 1930. |
Borough: | Petersburg Borough |
Latitude: | 57.1730880737 |
Longitude: | -132.301498413 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Mount Burkett: Mount Burkett.
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