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Mt. McKinley at over 20,000 feet was named for a man that never visited Alaska and now Obama will officially give the mountain back it's original name. Denali, Meaning "Great one or High one".
Mt. McKinley at over 20,000 feet was named for a man that never visited Alaska and now Obama will officially give the mountain back it's original name. Denali, Meaning "Great one or High one".
Hood and Rainier are named after British military officers who fought *against* the US. Wyeast and Tahoma are their proper names, and I use them whenever possible.
Alaskans have been asking for this for a long time and legislators from Ohio have been blocking it. So Obama took the reigns is only giving them what they want.
About time. Alaska has long petitioned to have the Feds change the name back to Denali and the Alaska Board of Geographic Names has always called it Denali.
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