The Chilkat Range is a mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 in Haines Borough

Haines Borough, Alaska

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 2,392 people, 991 households, and 654 families residing in the borough. The population density was 0,88 people per square mile . There were 1,419 housing units at an average density of 0,52 per square mile...

 and the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in the U.S. state

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 of Alaska

Alaska

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, west of the city of Juneau

Juneau, Alaska

The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel in the panhandle of the U.S. state of Alaska. It has been the capital of Alaska since 1906, when the government of the then-District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900...

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The Chilkat Mountains are one of the principal divisors between Haines Borough and Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve

Glacier Bay National Park is a national park in Alaska. The area around Glacier Bay in southeastern Alaska was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925. It was changed to Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve on Dec. 2, 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation...

. It also separates the Chilkat Inlet

Chilkat Inlet

Chilkat Inlet is an inlet in Lynn Canal in the Southeast region of the U.S. state of Alaska that includes the delta for the Chilkat River and borders Haines and the Chilkat Peninsula....

 and Lynn Canal

Lynn Canal

Lynn Canal is an inlet into the mainland of southeast Alaska.Lynn Canal runs about from the inlets of the Chilkat River south to Chatham Strait and Stephens Passage...

 from the Muir Inlet in Glacier Bay

Glacier Bay

Glacier Bay Basin in southeastern Alaska, United States, encompasses the Glacier Bay and surrounding mountains and glaciers, which was first proclaimed a U.S. National Monument on February 25, 1925 and which was later, on Dec...

. The northern boundary is generally considered to be the Klehini River

Klehini River

The Klehini River is a large, glacially fed stream in the vicinity of Haines in the U.S. state of Alaska.The Klehini River is approximately 36 miles long from its source in British Columbia to its mouth at the Chilkat River, of which it is the largest tributary...

. The unnamed ice field

Ice field

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 in the range also feeds many glaciers including the Davidson

Davidson Glacier

The Davidson Glacier is a large valley glacier near Haines, Alaska that finds its source in the Chilkat Range.-History:The Davidson Glacier was originally discovered by 1867 and was recounted by John Muir in his famous travels in and around Glacier Bay in 1879. The glacier was, at that time, a...

 and Rainbow Glacier

Rainbow Glacier

Rainbow Glacier is located in the U.S. state of Montana in Glacier National Park. The glacier is situated immediately to the east of Rainbow Peak at an elevation between and above sea level. The glacier covers an area of approximately and has visible crevasses in satellite imagery...

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Named Chilkat Mountains in 1879 by the USGS

United States Geological Survey

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 for the Chilkat subdivision of the Tlingit Indians. These mountains were renamed as the Chilkat Range in 1891.