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Mount Augustus National Park is located 852 km north of Perth, 490 km by road east of Carnarvon and 390 km northwest of Meekatharra, in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. Mount Augustus itself, the feature around which the national park is based, is known as Burringurrah to the local Wadjari Aboriginal people.
The 403 summits of greater North America with at least 3000 meters of topographic elevation and 500 meters of topographic prominence; Rank Mountain peak Region Mountain range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Denali [a] (Mount McKinley) Alaska: Alaska Range: 6190.5 m 20,310 ft: 6141 m 20,146 ft: 7,450 km/4,629 mi
Mount Augustus. Mount Augustus is located roughly 1,000 km north of Perth, in the Mount Augustus National Park in Western Australia. The name is also given to the neighbouring pastoral lease, Mount Augustus Station. The local Wadjari people call it Burringurrah, after a Dreamtime figure, a young boy who was speared and turned into a rock. [1]
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of the United States and North America. Mount McKinley is the third most topographically prominent and third most topographically isolated summit on Earth after Mount Everest and Aconcagua. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the United States of America.
Mount Sanford Alaska: Wrangell Mountains: 16,237 ft 4949 m: 7,687 ft 2343 m: 40.3 mi 64.8 km 7 Mount Fairweather [f] (Fairweather Mountain) Alaska British Columbia: Saint Elias Mountains: 15,325 ft 4671 m: 12,995 ft 3961 m: 124.4 mi 200 km
Mount Augusta, also designated Boundary Peak 183, [2] is a high peak in the US state of Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon. It lies about 25 km (16 mi) south of Mount Logan and 25 km east of Mount Saint Elias , respectively the first and second highest mountains in Canada.
Of the 100 highest major summits of greater North America, only Denali exceeds 6000 meters (19,685 feet) elevation, 11 peaks exceed 5000 meters (16,404 feet), and all 100 peaks exceed 4076 meters (13,373 feet) elevation. Of these 100 peaks, 81 are located in the United States, 17 in Canada, seven in México, and one in Guatemala.
Mount Bolivar, highest summit of the Oregon Coast Range; Mount Chinidere, Cascade Range; Mount Defiance, in the Columbia Gorge, Cascade Range, an old shield volcano; Mount Hood, active stratovolcano that is the highest summit of the state of Oregon; Mount Howard; Mount Jefferson, stratovolcano