Alaska Gazetteer
Mount McKinley is a physical feature (summit) in Denali Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Mount McKinley |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | Elevation 20,310 ft.; the highest point in North America |
| History: | "Named in 1896 by William A. Dickey, prospector, ""after William McKinley of Ohio, who had been nominated for the Presidency and that was the first news we received on our way out of that wonderful wilderness."" McKinley, 1854-1901, was the 25th President of the United States. The first mention of the massif was by Captain George Vancouver, who when seeing it from Cook Inlet in 1794, referred to the ""stupendous snow mountains."" The Russians descriptively called it ""Bolshaya (Bulshaia) Gora"" or ""big mountain."" Alfred Mayo and Arthur Harper, pioneer Alaska traders, after a trip up the Tanana River in 1878, reported, ""a great ice mountain to the south,"" but did not name it. A prospector, Frank Densmore, spoke so enthusiastically after seeing the mountain from Lake Minchumina in 1889, that it was known for years among prospectors as ""Densmores Peak."" The north summit was first reached on April 3, 1913, by Archdeacon Hudson Stuck, Walter Harper, Robert Tatum, and Harry Karstens (later park superintendent). On August 28, 2015, the name Mount McKinley was changed by Secretary's Order No. 3337 to Denali. Secretary's Order 3424, implementing Executive Order 14172, directed the Board on Geographic Names (""BGN"") to immediately rename Denali to Mount McKinley and to update the Geographic Names Information System to appropriately reflect the change." |
| Borough: | Denali Borough |
| Latitude: | 63.069103241 |
| Longitude: | -151.006256104 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Mount McKinley: Mount McKinley.
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