Wrangell–St. Elias's National Park Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds

How the card is assigned

Wrangell–St. Elias National Park (Alaska) became a National Park on December 2, 1980. Card Blueprints uses December 2 — month and day only — and the public D1 birth-card rule (December 31 is the Joker). The year 1980 is unused.

Coordinate: the 3 of Diamonds. Live card page (Next.js origin): /birth-card/3-of-diamonds.

December 2 Alaska cluster

Wrangell–St. Elias is one of seven current Alaska National Parks established as parks on December 2, 1980 (ANILCA), with Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark. Denali is not in this cluster: its National Park date remains February 26, 1917.

Parks that share December 2

• Gates of the Arctic — December 2, 1980
• Glacier Bay — December 2, 1980
• Katmai — December 2, 1980
• Kenai Fjords — December 2, 1980
• Kobuk Valley — December 2, 1980
• Lake Clark — December 2, 1980

Other parks on the 3 of Diamonds

• Gates of the Arctic — 3 of Diamonds
• Glacier Bay — 3 of Diamonds
• Katmai — 3 of Diamonds
• Kenai Fjords — 3 of Diamonds
• Kobuk Valley — 3 of Diamonds
• Lake Clark — 3 of Diamonds
• Gateway Arch — 3 of Diamonds

Wrangell–St. Elias on the record

Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in south central Alaska. The park, the largest in the United States, covers the Wrangell Mountains and a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the world. The park's high point is Mount Saint Elias at 18,008 feet (5,489 m), the second tallest mountain in both the United States and Canada. The park has been shaped by the competing forces of volcanism and glaciation, with its tall mountains uplifted by plate tectonics. Mount Wrangell and Mount Churchill are among major volcanos in these ranges. The park's glacial features include Malaspina Glacier, the largest piedmont glacier in North America, Hubbard Glacier, the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska, and Nabesna Glacier, the world's longest valley glacier. The Bagley Icefield covers much of the park's interior, which includes 60% of the permanently ice-covered terrain in Alaska. At the center of the park and preserve, the boomtown of Kennecott exploited one of the world's richest deposits of copper from 1903 to 1938. The abandoned mine buildings and mills comprise a National Historic Landmark district. The park and preserve were established in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, following its designation as Wrangell–St. Elias National Monument on December 1, 1978, by President Jimmy Carter using the Antiquities Act, pending final legislation to resolve the allotment of public lands in Alaska. The protected areas are included in an International Biosphere Reserve and are part of the Kluane/Wrangell–St.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve (CC BY-SA 4.0). Nothing here was written for this page beyond that article. National Park establishment dates come from the Wikipedia list column and NPS Park Anniversaries, not from this article.

FAQ

What date does Wrangell–St. Elias use?

December 2, 1980 — Wikipedia’s Date established as park. Month and day assign the card; the year is unused.

What is Wrangell–St. Elias's National Park birth card?

The 3 of Diamonds. That is a coordinate on the Card Blueprints calendar, not a fortune-telling claim about the park.

Where do the dates come from?

Primary: Wikipedia List of national parks of the United States, Date established as park. Footnotes: NPS Park Anniversaries. NPS Park Anniversaries lists Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument (1978-12-01) as an earlier first-unit record. That date is cited, not mapped.

Get your own coordinate

The $9 Deep Dive is a written report for a birthday you enter — not a reading of Wrangell–St. Elias National Park.

Get the $9 Deep Dive