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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.
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 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]
Location Peak name Mountain range Elevation Location of lowest point Minimum elevation Vertical relief; 1 Denali: Denali: Alaska Range: 20,310 feet (6,190 m) Yentna River [1] 240 feet (73 m) 20,070 feet (6,120 m) 2 Wrangell-St. Elias: Mount Saint Elias: Saint Elias Mountains: 18,008 feet (5,489 m) Gulf of Alaska: 0 feet (0 m) 18,008 feet (5,489 ...
Regarding parents, the prominence parent of peak A can be found by dividing the island or region in question into territories, by tracing the runoff from the key col (mountain pass) of every peak that is more prominent than peak A. The parent is the peak whose territory peak A resides in.
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.
This list includes significant mountain peaks located in the United States arranged alphabetically ... the Rocky Mountains of North America, and Colorado; Mount Emma ...
Mount Elbert [15] [16] [n] 3 14,440 ft 4401.2 m Arikaree River at Kansas border [o] 57 3,317 ft 1011 m 1 6,800 ft 2070 m 10 11,123 ft 3390 m Connecticut: Southern slope of Mount Frissell at Massachusetts border [17] [p] 39 2,386 ft 727 m Long Island Sound