Mount Defiant

{{Short description|Mountain in Alaska, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Defiant

| photo = Mount Defiant.jpg

| photo_caption = Aerial view from the south

| elevation_ft = 8348

| elevation_ref = {{cite web|url=https://listsofjohn.com/peak/154312|title=Defiant, Mount - 8,348' Alaska|website=listsofjohn.com|accessdate=2020-03-25}}

| prominence_ft = 98

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| isolation_mi = 0.73

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| range = Chugach Mountains

| parent_peak =

| listing =

| location = Chugach National Forest
Valdez-Cordova Borough
Alaska, United States

| map = USA Alaska

| map_caption = Location in Alaska

| label_position = left

| mapframe = yes

| mapframe-zoom = 8

| mapframe-caption = Interactive map of Mount Defiant

| coordinates = {{coord|61|15|17|N|147|07|36|W|type:mountain_region:US-AK_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

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| topo = USGS Anchorage B-1

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Mount Defiant is an {{convert|8348|ft|m|0|adj=on}} elevation glaciated summit located {{convert|32|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} northwest of Valdez in the Chugach Mountains of the U.S. state of Alaska. This remote mountain is situated {{convert|2.5|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} east-northeast of Columbia Peak, {{convert|6.5|mi|km|0|abbr=on}} south of Mount Einstein, near the head of Columbia Glacier's Second Branch, on land managed by Chugach National Forest. Mount Defiant was named in 1957 by members of the Chugach Mountains Expedition which was sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America, because the rugged ice-covered peak defied all their attempts to find a route to the summit.Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, Donald J. Orth author, United States Government Printing Office (1967), page 264. The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1965 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.{{cite gnis|id=1401094|name=Mount Defiant|accessdate=2020-03-25}}