Face Mountain
Face Mountain is a mountain summit located in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The peak is situated west-northwest of Skagway, and north of Mount Harding, on land managed by Tongass National Forest. Although modest in elevation, relief is significant since Face Mountain rises above tidewater of Taiya Inlet in less than . This geographic feature was named "Parsons Peak" in 1897 by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and has had variant names "Gnome Mountain", and "The Sphinx" used locally to describe a face in the rock. The mountain's present name and summit location was officially adopted in 1985 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, however USGS maps still show the old name, Parsons Peak, as the summit. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of Taiya Inlet.
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Boundary Ranges
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Coast Mountains
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U.S. state
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Alaska
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Skagway
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Mount Harding
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Tongass National Forest
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relief
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Taiya Inlet
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U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
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U.S. Board on Geographic Names
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runoff
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Face Mountain
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Face Mountain
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1897-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1897
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1985-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1985
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mountain range