Olympic Mountains
| Olympic Mountains | ||
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 The Brothers from the sea |
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| Highest peak | Mount Olympus ( 2428 m ) | |
| location | Washington (USA) | |
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| Coordinates | 47 ° 48 ′ N , 123 ° 43 ′ W | |
The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula in the western part of Washington state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The Chehalis River is the southern limit of the mountains , with the Willapa Hills joining to the south .
The highest point is Mount Olympus with 2428 m. Most of the mountain range belongs to the Olympic National Park . The mountains have numerous snow fields and glaciers, the lower limit of which is 1500 m high.
The first European to see the Olympic Mountains was the Spaniard Juan José Pérez Hernández in 1774, who called him "Sierra Nevada de Santa Rosalia". The British John Meares named him in 1788 "Mount Olympus" after the Greek mountains Olympus .
Significant mountains of the range are:
- Mount Olympus with eight glaciers (2428 m)
- Mount Constance (2360 m)
- Mount Anderson (2231 m), spring from the waters in the Pacific Ocean, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and the Hood Canal open
- The Brothers , double summit (south summit: 2092 m)
- Mount Deception (2374 m)
