| LC control no. | sh 85011073 |
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| Geographic heading | Baker, Mount (Wash.) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Washington (State)--Baker, Mount |
| Variant(s) | Carmelita Mountain, Gran (Wash.) Gran Carmelita Mountain (Wash.) Gran Montana Carmelita (Wash.) Great Carmelita Mountain (Wash.) Great White Watcher (Wash.) Ko-ma-el (Wash.) Kollia-Kulshan (Wash.) Koma-Kulshan (Wash.) Kweq' Smánit (Wash.) Mount Baker (Wash.) P-kowitz (Wash.) White Friar (Wash.) |
| See also | Mountains--Washington (State) North Cascades (B.C. and Wash.) Volcanoes--Washington (State) |
| Found in | Columbia gaz. (Baker, Mount (10,778 ft/3,285 m), Whatcom co., N. Wash., in Cascade Range, in Mt. Baker Natl. Forest; snowcapped extracted volcano clearly seen from Vancouver (B.C.) to NW) GNIS, Mar. 19, 2008 (Mount Baker, summit, Whatcom Co., Wash.) Peakbagger.com Web site, Mar. 19, 2008 (Mount Baker, Washington, Whatcom Co.; 10,781 feet, 3286 meters; alternate name: Koma-Kulshan; highest summit: Grant Peak; subpeaks: Sherman Peak (10,160 ft/3097 m), Colfax Peak (9440 ft/2877 m), Colfax Peak East (9355 ft/2851 m), Lincoln Peak (9080 ft/2768 m), Colfax Peak West (8704 ft/2653 m), Seward Peak (8000 ft/2438 m); 48°47ʹN 121°49ʹW; Cascade Range, North Cascades (Highest Point), Skagit Range (Highest Point), Baker-Shuksan Massif (Highest Point)) Washington place names, via WWW, Mar. 19, 2008 (Mount Baker. A 10,778-foot peak east of Bellingham at the headwaters of the Nooksack and Baker rivers in central Whatcom County; Nooksack Indians called it Kollia-Kulshan, meaning "white, shining, steep mountain"; Clallam Indians used the name P-kowitz, meaning "white mountain"; in 1790, Manuel Quimper charted it as Gran Montana Carmelita. Other names were Ko-ma-el, used by Skagit Indians, White Friar, Great White Watcher, and the suggested names of Presidents James K. Polk and John Tyler) GeoNames [algorithmically matched] summit; 48°46ʹ38ʺN 121°48ʹ48ʺW Miles, J.C. Koma Kulshan : the story of Mount Baker, ©2010. Nooksack Indian Tribe website, Nov. 27, 2018: Departments > Cultural Resources > Nooksack place names (Kweq' Smánit - Mt. Baker. [white mountain]) |
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