Telescope Peak
| Telescope Peak | ||
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 View of Telescope Peak in the Panamint Range |
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| height | 3366 m | |
| location | California , USA | |
| Mountains | Panamint Range | |
| Notch height | 1880 m | |
| Coordinates | 36 ° 10 '12 " N , 117 ° 5' 21" W | |
| Topo map | USGS Telescope Peak | |
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| Normal way | from the Mahagony Flat via a hiking trail | |
Telescope Peak is the highest point in Death Valley National Park in the US state of California at 3,366 meters above sea level . The mountain is also the highest in the Panamint Range and is in Inyo County . From the summit, Mount Whitney to the west and Charleston Peak to the east are visible. Both are each over a hundred kilometers away. Therefore it has the name Telescope Peak (from ancient Greek τηλεσκόπος (teleskópos) "looking far away").
geography
Telescope Peak is known for the considerable difference in altitude to the surrounding area. Its summit rises 3478 meters above Badwater , the lowest point of the Valley of Death about 15 miles east, and about 3050 meters above the Panamint Valley, 13 kilometers west. Only much better known high mountains achieve something similar in the United States. The difference between the summit of Mount Everest and its northern foot in the highlands of Tibet is similarly large at around 4000 meters .
Due to its location in a mountain range surrounded by deep valleys, Telescope Peak also has a great notch height of up to 1880 meters and is 22nd among the mountains in the United States outside of Alaska and Hawaii .
At Telescope Peak, in addition to Pinyon pines and Pinus flexilis ( Limber pines ), a variety of tree species can be found. Awn pines grow at higher altitudes .
Web links
- Datasheet for Telescope and Wildrose Peak (PDF; 94 kB) of the National Park Service
Individual evidence
- ↑ The elevation of this summit has been converted from its National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) elevation of to the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) elevation of. National Geodetic Survey
- ↑ a b AMERICA'S 57 - THE ULTRAS . In: Peaklist.org . Retrieved September 28, 2008.
- ^ Southern California Atlas and Gazetteer , DeLorme Mapping, 1990.
- ↑ Mount Everest (topographic map, 2nd edition), National Geographic Society / Boston Museum of Science / Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, Bradford Washburn , project leader, 1991.