Mount Root is a physical feature (summit) in Yakutat Borough.
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Feature Name: | Mount Root |
Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
Feature Type: | Physical |
Class: | Summit |
Description: | On the Alaska-Canada boundary, NW of Hoonah, 5 mi N of Mount Fairweather, St. Elias Mountains. |
History: | Named by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) and published in 1908 on Chart 8000. The feature was named for Elihu Root, 1845-1937. Root was a member of the Alaska Boundary Tribunal and U.S. Secretary of War, 1899-1904, under Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt; Secretary of State, 1905-09, under President Roosevelt; and U.S. Senator from New York 1909-15. He was also a member of the Hague Tribunal. |
Borough: | Yakutat Borough |
Latitude: | 58.9843711853 |
Longitude: | -137.501983643 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Mount Root: Mount Root.
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 Root does not include property ownership information.