Alaska Gazetteer
Mount Foresta is a physical feature (summit) in Yakutat Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Mount Foresta |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | In the Saint Elias Mountains, 18.5 km (11.5 mi) NW of Mount Seattle and 74 km (46 mi) N of Yakutat. |
| History: | Named for Foresta Hodgson Wood (1904-1951), who was responsible for the logistics planning of Project Snow Cornice of the Arctic Institute of North America, and who, with her daughter, was killed in an airplane crash in the area of this mountain about July 27, 1951. (See also Valerie Glacier southwest of this mountain.) The name was proposed in 1957 by the Arctic Institute of North America. |
| Borough: | Yakutat Borough |
| Latitude: | 60.1906814575 |
| Longitude: | -139.433609009 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Mount Foresta: Mount Foresta.
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 Foresta does not include property ownership information.
