Mount Michelson is a mountain at the head of the Meares Glacier, NW of Valdez in the

Chugach Mountains The Chugach Mountains of southern Alaska are the northernmost of the several mountain ranges that make up the Pacific Coast Ranges of the western edge of North America. The range is about long and wide, and extends from the Knik and Turnagain ...

of Alaska, USA. The mountain was named around 1957 for

Albert Abraham Michelson Albert Abraham Michelson FFRS HFRSE (surname pronunciation anglicized as "Michael-son", December 19, 1852 – May 9, 1931) was a German-born American physicist of Polish/Jewish origin, known for his work on measuring the speed of light and espe ...

by members of the Chugach Mountains Expedition sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America.

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Michelson Landforms of Chugach Census Area, Alaska Michelson {{ChugachAK-geo-stub