Description

Mount Crillon is located in Fairweather Range in Glacier Bay National Monument at head of Perouse Glacier, St. Elias Mts.

History

Named by La Perouse (1797, v. 2, p. 219) about July 2, 1786, for General Louis des Balbes de Berton, Duke of Crillon, 1543-1615, "who distinguished himself at Lepanto and fought for Henri III and Henri IV" (Farquhar, 1959, p. 215).

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