Alaska Gazetteer
Mount Williwaw is a physical feature (summit) in Anchorage Borough. The primary coordinates for Mount Williwaw places it within the AK 99577 ZIP Code delivery area.
| Feature Name: | Mount Williwaw |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | In the Chugach Mountains, near the head of Ship Creek, 2.5 mi NNW of Indian Creek Pass and 15 mi SE of Anchorage. |
| History: | Named in 1963 by the Mountaineering Club of Alaska because an infantry company from nearby Fort Richardson was caught, in May 1962, in a williwaw (a windy spring blizzard) near the slopes of this mountain. Three men died of exhaustion before the group was rescued. |
| Borough: | Anchorage Borough |
| Latitude: | 61.1035652161 |
| Longitude: | -149.51423645 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Mount Williwaw: Mount Williwaw.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Mount Williwaw does not include property ownership information.
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Hope, AK
(13.3 miles SSW) Sunrise, AK (15.1 miles SSE) |
Anchorage, AK
(15.1 miles WNW) |
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Basher, AK
(7.1 miles WNW) Indian, AK (8.1 miles S) |
Knik Heights, AK
(9.3 miles W) |
