Mount Reed is a summit in Alaska, United States.
Description Mount Reed is located southwest of the community of Adak on Adak Island of the Aleutian Islands. This mountain is part of the Aleutian Range, and it is set within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. It is the prominent peak between Shagak Bay and the Bay of Islands. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Lake de Marie in approximately . The Aleutian shield fern is a very rare species of plant which is only found on Mount Reed where the 142 clumps on this mountain are the only ones currently found growing in the wild anywhere in the world.This ultra-rare plant that only grows on Adak is getting new attention, Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, August 14, 2017.
History The mountain was named by members of the U.S. Navy Aleutian Island Survey Expedition in 1934 after a local resident who was buried on or near the mountain.Donald J. Orth, Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967, p. 799. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1936 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.Decisions of the United States Board on Geographical Names, Decisions Rendered Between July 1, 1935 and June 30, 1936, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936, p. 35. The Aleutian shield fern found only on this mountain was listed as an endangered species in 1988.John Copeland Nagle, Law's Environment: How the Law Shapes the Places We Live, Yale University Press, 2010, , p. 21.
Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mount Reed is located in a subpolar oceanic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. Winter temperatures can drop to 10 °F and winter squalls that produce wind gusts in excess of can cause severe wind chill factors.
See also List of mountain peaks of Alaska
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External links Weather: Mount Reed