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Mount Whitney är ett berg i bergskedjan Sierra Nevada i Kalifornien i USA. Berget ligger i centrala delen av delstaten, och är med 4 421 meters höjd [ 1] den högsta bergstoppen i USA:s "lower 48 states", dvs utanför Alaska och Hawaii. Det har namn efter den amerikanske geologen Josiah Whitney (1819–1896).
Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23, 1819 – August 18, 1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874). Through his travels and studies in the principal mining regions of the United States, Whitney became the foremost authority of his day on ...
Area. 40 acres (16 ha) Elevation. 4,000 feet (1,200 m) Built. 1916 - 1917. Architect. Charles Dean. The Mount Whitney Fish Hatchery, located in Independence, California, United States, is an historic fish hatchery that has played an important role in the preservation of the golden trout, California's state fish.
Mount Whitney. Mount Whitney on Sierra Nevadan vuorijonossa, Kaliforniassa, Yhdysvalloissa, sijaitseva vuori. Se on Yhdysvaltojen korkein vuori Alaskan ulkopuolella. Vuori nimettiin yhdysvaltalaisen geologin, Josiah Whitneyn, mukaan. [1] Ensimmäisenä vuoren valloittivat kalifornialaiset kalastajat Charles Begole, A. H. Johnson ja John Lucas ...
Snowmelt, icy slopes early season, altitude. The John Muir Trail ( JMT) ( Paiute: Nüümü Poyo, N-ue-mue Poh-yo) is a long-distance trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, passing through Yosemite, Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. It is named after John Muir, a naturalist. From the northern terminus at Happy Isles in ...
Whitney Portal (formerly Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp) is the end of the Whitney Portal road in Inyo County, California, 13.7 miles (22 km) west of Lone Pine at an elevation of 8,374 feet (2,552 m). [1] Whitney Portal is the gateway to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States; it is the trailhead for the Mount Whitney Trail.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in California and the contiguous 48 United States. Photographs of mountain [edit] ... In Wikipedia. Afrikaans;
