Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
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Kluane / Wrangell–St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek is an international park system located in Canada and the United States, at the border of Yukon, Alaska, and British Columbia.
It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994 for the spectacular glacier and icefield landscapes as well as for the importance of grizzly bears, caribou and Dall sheep habitat. The total area of the site is 98391.21 square kilometres (37989.06 mi2), which is just smaller than the country of South Korea at 100339 square kilometres (38741 mi2). The park system is the largest transboundary protected area in the world.
It is home to a number of notable landforms, including the world's largest non-polar icefield; the largest piedmont glacier in the world, Malaspina Glacier; the world's longest interior valley glacier, Nabesna Glacier; as well as Canada's highest peak and North America's second-highest peak, Mount Logan, at 5,959 m (19,551 ft).
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