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Mountains in Denali National Park and Preserve are part of the Alaska Range, with several subsidiary ranges included within the overall Alaska Range. Denali (also known as Mount McKinley), is the highest peak in the park and the highest peak in North America at 20,320 feet (6,194 m) [1] [2] The names listed here reflect the official names in the USGS U.S. Board on Geographic Names database.
Denali is a granitic pluton, mostly pink quartz monzonite, lifted by tectonic pressure from the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate; at the same time, the sedimentary material above and around the mountain was stripped away by erosion.
The Denali Wilderness is a wilderness area within Denali National Park that protects the higher elevations of the central Alaska Range, including Denali. The wilderness comprises about one-third of the current national park and preserve—2,146,580 acres (3,354 sq mi; 8,687 km 2) that correspond with the former park boundaries before 1980. [37]
The 20,000-foot peak in Denali National Park and Preserve in south-central Alaska had since 1917 been known as Mount McKinley, in honor of 25th president William McKinley, who was assassinated in ...
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of North America. Federally designated as Mount McKinley, ... Alaska Range: 6190.5 m 20,310 ft: 6141 m 20,146 ft:
The mountain was formally recognized as Denali in 2015 under the Obama administration. Trump, during his first term, had suggested renaming it back to Mount McKinley. Alaska's two senators, Lisa ...
Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office to change the name of the mountain from Denali back to Mount McKinley, in honor of President William McKinley, who was assassinated in ...
The name of Denali, the highest mountain in North America, became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali". The name Denali is based on the Koyukon name of the mountain, Deenaalee ('the high one').