# Kigluaik Mountains

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The **Kigluaik Mountains** (*Kiglawait* in [Inupiaq](/source/Inupiaq_language)) are a 42-mile (68-kilometre) mountain chain running east to west on western [Alaska](/source/Alaska)'s [Seward Peninsula](/source/Seward_Peninsula).

Its highest point is the summit of [Mount Osborn](/source/Mount_Osborn), at 4,714 feet (1,437 meters) above sea level. This remote range is home to numerous isolated mountain lakes which have been shown to contain unique subspecies of [Arctic char](/source/Arctic_char).[1] Located in the [Nome Census Area](/source/Nome_Census_Area,_Alaska),[2] Kigluaik Mountains are noted as the location of [Grand Union Glacier](/source/Grand_Union_Glacier), the only remaining active [glacier](/source/Glacier) in western Alaska.[3]

## References

1. Webb, Joseph (2018-01-16). ["A Newly Discovered Population of Arctic Char of the Kigluaik Mountains of Alaska"](https://www.blm.gov/documents/national-office/blm-library/resource-note/newly-discovered-population-arctic-char-kigluaik). *Bureau of Land Management*. U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2025-06-12.

1. 1404642. Retrieved 2025-06-12.

1. Parker E. Calkin, Darrell S. Kaufman, Bruce J. Przybyl, W. Brett Whitford, and Brian J. Peck [Glacier Regimes, Periglacial Landforms, and Holocene Climate Change in the Kigluaik Mountains, Seward Peninsula, Alaska](http://instaar.colorado.edu/AAAR/volume30/30-2abs.html)

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