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1 Denali National Park By Sima Schafranek

2 Location Region-West State-Alaska Capital-Jenuea
Longitude °West Latitude °North

3 Landforms There are many, many, many landforms in Denali National Park. Mt. McKinley is 20,320ft. and is the highest point in North America. Mt. Foraker is 17,400ft. high. South Peak is 20,320ft. North Peak is 19,470ft.high. The lowest point in Denali is 200ft.high(look at that compared to the highest point.)

4 Culture Denali turned into a National Park in 1980.
People did lots of things in Denali National Park for a lot of years. Kayvkon Athabaskans(the Native Americans) were the first people to live in the park in 11000bp. After the Native Americans, George Vancouver came. He was surveying the Knick Arm of the Cook Inlet. There were 406,582 people in Denali in 2011. Denali turned into a National Park in 1980.

5 Waterways Waterways plays a big part in Denali National Park.
The many rivers in Denali are mostly quite shallow moving over permafrost earth seasonally. Trout fishing sometimes occurs in Wonder Lake. The Tanana River ultimately empties into the Yukon River. The Nerara River is 150 miles long!!!

6 Rocks and Minerals There are many rocks and minerals in Denali National Park. In Denali these rock layers with dinosaurs tracks are called the Lower Cantwell Formation. Fossils in the same rock layers where the dinosaur fossils are found. They begin to put together a more complete story. Sedimentary rocks hardened the sits and muds where dinosaurs pressed their toes and left tracks.


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