Transcript National Park

Denali National Park
By Sima Schafranek
Location
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Region-West
State-Alaska
Capital-Jenuea
Longitude-150.5000°West
Latitude-63.3333°North
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.)
Culture
• 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.
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!!!
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.