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Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of the United States and North America. Denali is the third most topographically prominent and third most topographically isolated summit on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua .
Of the 200 most prominent summits of the United States, 84 are located in Alaska, 17 in California, 17 in Nevada, 14 in Washington, 12 in Montana, 11 in Utah, nine in Arizona, seven in Hawaii, six in Colorado, six in Oregon, four in Wyoming, four in Idaho, four in New Mexico, two in North Carolina, and one each in New Hampshire, New York, Tennessee, Texas and Maine.
[b] [c] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of the United States by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [d] [c] The second table below ranks the 50 most prominent summits of the United States.
In the United States, only Denali exceeds 4000 kilometers (2485 miles) of topographic isolation. 3 summits exceed 2000 kilometers (1243 miles), 8 exceed 1000 kilometers (621.4 miles), 13 exceed 500 kilometers (310.7 miles), 47 exceed 200 kilometers (124.3 miles), 113 exceed 100 kilometers (62.14 miles), and 214 major summits exceed 50 ...
Padre Island, Texas – most extensive Gulf of Mexico island at 209 square miles (540 km 2) and longest barrier island on Earth at 113 miles Isle Royale in Lake Superior , Michigan 48°0′N 88°55′W / 48.000°N 88.917°W / 48.000; -88.917 ( Isle Royale ) – most extensive island in a lake in all U.S. territory at 206.73 ...
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of 282 ft (86 m) below sea level. [1] [2] Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only 84.6 miles (136 km) to the northwest. [3]
The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum horizontal distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and islands as well as for major mountain peaks and can even be calculated for submarine summits.
Mount Whitney (Paiute: Too-man-i-goo-yah [6] or Too-man-go-yah [7]) is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States, with an elevation of 14,505 feet (4,421 m). [1] It is in East–Central California, in the Sierra Nevada, on the boundary between California's Inyo and Tulare counties, and 84.6 miles (136.2 km) [8] west-northwest of North America's lowest topographic point, Badwater ...