Dunraven Peak

Dunraven Peak

Dunraven Peak (center), viewed from the Mount Washburn trail
Highest point
Elevation 9,869 ft (3,008 m) [1]
Coordinates 44°46′58″N 110°28′10″W / 44.78278°N 110.46944°W / 44.78278; -110.46944 (Dunraven Peak)Coordinates: 44°46′58″N 110°28′10″W / 44.78278°N 110.46944°W / 44.78278; -110.46944 (Dunraven Peak)[1]
Geography
Location Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming
Parent range Washburn Range
Topo map Mount Washburn

Dunraven Peak el. 9,869 feet (3,008 m) is a mountain peak in the Washburn Range of Yellowstone National Park. In 1874, just two years after the park's creation, the Earl of Dunraven, a titled Englishman made a visit to Yellowstone in conjunction with a hunting expedition to the Northern Rockies. He was so impressed with the park, that he devoted well over 150 pages to Yellowstone in his The Great Divide, published in London in 1874. The Great Divide was one of the earliest works to praise and publicize the park.

In 1878 during a U.S. Geological Survey of the park, Henry Gannett, a geographer working with the survey, named a peak just two miles southwest of Mount Washburn in the honor of the Earl of Dunraven and the service his book had done for the park. In 1879, Philetus Norris, the park superintendent gave a pass on the Grand Loop Road between Tower and Canyon the name Dunraven Pass because of its proximity to Dunraven Peak.[2]

Images of Dunraven Peak
Duraven Peak's namesake, Earl of Dunraven 

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Dunraven Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
  2. ↑ Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). Yellowstone Place Names-Mirrors of History. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. pp. 104–106. ISBN 0-87081-382-X.
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