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"Alsek Peak" 02-35
Alsek Peak, a 2,716 m mountain summit in the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon, Canada, in the glaciated Alsek River drainage that flows west to the Pacific.
"Buckwell Peak" 25-45
Buckwell Peak, also listed with Mount Bigger naming ambiguity, is a 2721 m ultra-prominent (1961 m) summit in the Eastern Alsek Ranges, Saint Elias Mountains, and the highest point of the Alsek Ranges on the BC/Alaska border.
"Detour Peak" 50-35
Detour Peak is a 2550 m (8366 ft) ultra-prominent summit, 1906 m prominence, in the Saint Elias Mountains' Alsek Ranges, Stikine Region, British Columbia, near Detour Creek and the Tatshenshini River.
"Kwatna Peak" 04-58
Kwatna Peak (04-58) is a 2,280 m ultra-prominence summit, prominence 2,215 m, in the Northern Pacific Ranges of British Columbia's Coast Mountains, named for the Kwatna River drainage on Burke Channel.
Abercrombie Mtn.
Abercrombie Mountain: 7,310-ft (2,228 m) Selkirk Mountains summit in Colville National Forest, northeastern Washington; 5,174-ft prominence, #53 lower-48 ultra peak, highest point in Stevens County, named for Army officer William Abercrombie.
Acamarachi
Acamarachi (Cerro Pili) is a steep andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano in Antofagasta, northern Chile, about 80 km SE of San Pedro de Atacama; 6,023–6,046 m, no known Holocene eruptions, unmonitored, 87th in Chile's volcanic risk ranking.
Acatenango
Acatenango is a 3,976 m stratovolcano in Guatemala, 15 km southwest of Antigua and 3 km north of Fuego. Third highest in the country; last erupted in 1972; famous hiking viewpoint over Fuego.
Aconcagua
Aconcagua, in Mendoza Province, Argentina, is the highest mountain in the Americas and outside Asia at about 6,962 m. First climbed by Matthias Zurbriggen in 1897; key routes are the Normal Route and the 360° route.
Adams (volcano)
Mount Adams (Pahto), Washington's largest active volcano, a 3,742 m andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascades; ~300 km³ erupted over 520,000 years; last erupted roughly 1,000-7,600 years ago; main hazard is lahars.
Adirondack High Peaks
The Adirondack High Peaks are 46 Adirondack mountains, originally those believed over 4,000 feet, topped by Mount Marcy (5,344 ft); basis of the Adirondack 46er hiking challenge and the 275,460-acre High Peaks Wilderness.
Agua
Volcan de Agua (Hunahpu), a 3,760 m dormant Guatemalan stratovolcano near Antigua; no historical eruptions, but its 1541 lahar destroyed Ciudad Vieja, first capital, killing over 600.
Aguilera
Aguilera (Volcán Aguilera) is a 2,546 m dacitic stratovolcano in the southernmost Chilean Andes, part of the Austral Volcanic Zone, whose large eruption around 1253 BCE left a widespread ash layer used to date Patagonian sediments.
Aliso
Aliso (volcano number 352031) is a largely unexplored Ecuadorian volcanic complex east of Antisana, a 4,267 m stratovolcano with rhyolitic and dacitic lava domes, last confirmed eruption 2450 BCE.
Ancohuma
Ancohuma, also known as Janqutma, is a 6,427 m snow peak in Bolivia's Cordillera Real, rising above Sorata. It is the range's second-highest peak, following its neighbor Illampu.
Angilaaq Mtn.
Angilaaq Mountain is an officially named summit in Nunavut, situated on Bylot Island within the Arctic Cordillera's Byam Martin Mountains. It reaches an elevation of over 1,939 m.
Antisana
Antisana (Antizana), a glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano 50 km southeast of Quito, Ecuador, rising 5,753 m; last confirmed eruption 1801-02 (attribution disputed), source of most of southern Quito's drinking water.
Antuco
Antuco, active basaltic stratovolcano (2,979 m) in Chile's Biobío Region, Southern Volcanic Zone; Holocene sector collapse (6.4 km³ debris avalanche), 27 historical eruptions, last in 1869, 13th-ranked high-threat Chilean volcano.
Aracar
Aracar is a 6,095 m Holocene stratovolcano in Salta Province, northwestern Argentina, near the Chilean border, with a 1-1.5 km summit crater lake, no confirmed historical eruptions, and no monitoring.
Arc Dome
Arc Dome, also called Toiyabe Dome, is the highest summit of the Toiyabe Range in Nye County, Nevada, rising to 11,774 feet with a 5,214-foot prominence.
Atacazo
Atacazo is an andesitic stratovolcano in Ecuador's Western Cordillera about 25 km southwest of Quito, whose caldera holds dacitic lava domes and last erupted about 2,300 years ago.
Atitlan (volcano)
Atitlan, also known as Volcan Atitlan, is a 3,535 m stratovolcano in the Guatemalan Highlands rising on the southern rim of the caldera holding Lake Atitlan, last erupting in 1853.
Atna Peak
Atna Peak: official BC summit in the Kitimat Ranges, Coast Mountains, east of Kitimat; highest peak in the Kitimat Ranges at about 2,724-2,755 m, highest point of Atna River Park; distinct from Alaska's Atna Peaks.
Azufral
Azufral, also known as Azufral de Túquerres and formerly called Chaitán, is an active stratovolcano in Nariño department, southwestern Colombia, rising to 4,070 m (13,353 ft).
Azul, Cerro (volcano, Chile)
Cerro Azul is a 3,788 m stratovolcano at the southern end of the Descabezado Grande system in central Chile, whose Quizapu vent produced one of Chile's largest eruptions in 1932.
Barbeau Peak
Barbeau Peak, 2,616 m, on Ellesmere Island in Quttinirpaaq National Park, Nunavut; highest mountain in Nunavut and the Canadian Arctic, in the British Empire Range, first climbed in 1967.
Barva
Barva (Barba) is a 2,906 m andesitic shield and complex volcano in Costa Rica's Cordillera Central, 23 km north of San José; largest volcano by volume (427 km³) in the Central American Volcanic Front, with no confirmed historical eruptions but Holocene activity to about 1700 CE.
Bayo Gorbea, Cerro
Cerro Bayo Gorbea (volcano 355122) is a 5,413 m complex volcano on the Chile-Argentina border east of Salar de Gorbea, with no known Holocene eruptions, dacitic summit flows, and a 2019 steam observation.
Belknap
Belknap: late Holocene basaltic shield volcano complex near McKenzie Pass, central Oregon Cascades, also called McKenzie Highway lava field; erupted about 3,000 to 1,500 years ago; USGS threat potential Low/Very Low.
Birkenhead Peak
Birkenhead Peak is a 2,506 m summit in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, northeast of Pemberton, an ultra-prominence peak with 1,781 m of prominence climbed via Microwave Ridge.
Black Elk Peak
Black Elk Peak, formerly Harney Peak until the 2016 U.S. Board on Geographic Names renaming, is South Dakota's highest summit at 7,242 ft listed (7,231 ft surveyed) and the highest US point east of the Rockies, in the Black Elk Wilderness, Black Hills.