Information About

Potato Mountain

Quick Facts

Open in The Map Potato Mountain on The Map

Location

65 ° 38' 57.001" N,
167 ° 34' 26" W

Region

Nome (CA)

Nearest City

Wales

Elevation

1119 ft (341.07 m)

Potato Mountain in Detail.

About

SE of Lopp Lagoon, 15 mi. E of Cape Prince of Wales and 44 mi. NW of Teller, Seward Peninsula High.

History

Local name published in 1900 on US@C&GS Chart 9380; reported in 1927 as Conical Hill by Captain Beechey (1831, map facing p. 328), Royal Navy (RN). In 1852 it was called Konicheskaya Sopka, meaning Conical Volcano, by the Russian Hdrog. Dept.