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Word of the Week Mount Rainier: Highest mountain in Washington elevation — the height to which something is elevated or to which it rises
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• Mount Rainier is the highest peak in the Cascade Range, a long range of volcanic mountains that stretches from Washington through Oregon to northern California. Other Cascade peaks seen from the summit of Mount Rainier include Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, Glacier Peak and Mount Hood on a clear day.
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• Mount Rainier, a giant stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc, is considered an active volcano with its last eruption in 1894. Rainier erupted over a dozen times in the last 2,600 years, with the largest eruption 2,200 years ago.
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Did You Know? Mount Rainier: Elevation: 14,411 feet (4,392 meters) Prominence: 13,211 feet (4,027 meters); 21st most prominent peak in the world. Location: Cascade Range, Pierce County, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington. Coordinates: 46°51′10″ N 121°45′37″ W First Ascent: First recorded ascent in 1870 by Hazard Stevens and P. B. Van Trump.
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• Mount Rainier is Washington's highest mountain. It is the 21st most prominent mountain in the world with an elevation rise of 13,211 feet from its nearest low point. It is the most prominent mountain in the lower 48 states (the contiguous United States).
• As an active volcano, Mount Rainier has many small high-frequency earthquakes, often occurring on a daily basis. Every month as many as five quakes are recorded near the mountain's summit. Small swarms of five to 10 earthquakes, occurring over a few days, also occur often. Geologists say most of these earthquakes result from hot fluids circulating inside the mountain. Go to “Recent Mount Rainier Earthquakes” to get the latest seismic data about what's shaking on Rainier.
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• The volcanic cone of Mount Rainier is about 500,000 years old, although an early ancestral cone composed of lava flows is more than 840,000 years old. Geologists say the mountain once stood at about 16,000 feet but debris avalanches, mudflows or lahars, and glaciations reduced it to its present elevation. The huge Osceola Mudflow, occurring 5,000 years ago, was a giant debris avalanche that swept • Rainier's summit has two overlapping volrock, ice, and mud more than 50 miles to the canic craters, each more than 1,000 feet in diameter. It also has a small crater lake that is Tacoma area and removed more than 1,600 16 feet deep and 130 feet long by 30 feet wide. feet from the mountain top. The last major mudflow happened over 500 years ago. This is the highest crater lake in North Geologists say future mudflows could reach as America. The lake, however, lies beneath 100 feet of ice in the west summit crater. It can only far as Seattle and inundate the Puget Sound. be visited by following a network of ice caves in • Mount Rainier is the centerpiece of 235,625the craters. acre Mount Rainier National Park, which lies • Mount Rainier is the most glaciated mountain 50 miles southwest of Seattle. The park is 97 percent wilderness with the other 3 percent a in the contiguous United States with 26 major glaciers as well as 35 square miles of glaciers National Historic Landmark District. More than 2 million visitors come to the park every year. and permanent snowfields. President William McKinley created the nation• Mount Rainier has three separate summits – al park, the nation's fifth, on March 2, 1899. 14,411-foot Columbia Crest, 14,158-foot Point • Native Americans called the mountain Success, and 14,112-foot Liberty Cap. The standard climbing routes reach the crater crest Tahoma, Tacoma, or Talol from a Lushootseed word meaning "mother of waters" and a Skagit at 14,150 feet and many climber stop here, word meaning "great white mountain." deeming that they've reached the top. The actual summit at Columbia is a quarter mile • The first Europeans to see the great peak away and reached by a 45-minute hike across were Captain George Vancouver (1757-1798) the crater. and his crew, who sailed into Puget Sound in • Liberty Cap at 14,112 feet (4,301 meters), is 1792 while exploring the northwest coast of the lowest of Mount Rainiers three summits but North America. Vancouver named the peak for Rear Admiral Peter Rainier (1741-1808) of the has a prominence of 492 feet (150 meters) which makes it a separate peak from Columbia British Royal Navy. Rainier fought against the colonists in the American Revolution and was Crest, the high point. Most climbers, however, severely wounded on July 8, 1778 while capdo not consider it a separate mountain because of Rainier's huge size so it is seldom turing a ship. He later became a commodore and served in the East Indies before retiring in
1805. After his election to parliament, he died on April 7, 1808. • In 1792, Captain George Vancouver wrote about newly discovered and named Mount Rainier: "The weather was serene and pleasant, and the country continued to exhibit between us and the eastern snowy range the same luxuriant appearance. At is northern extremity, Mount Baker bore by compass N. 22E.; the round snowy mountain, now forming its southern extremity, and which, after my friend, Rear Admiral Rainier, I distinguish by the name of Mount Rainier, bore N(S) 42 E." • Through the 19th century the mountain was called both Mount Rainier and Mount Tacoma. In 1890, the United States Board of Geographic Names deemed that it would be called Rainier. As late as 1924, however, a resolution was introduced in the U.S. Congress to called it Tacoma. • The first ascent of Mount Rainier was thought to be in 1852 by an undocumented party. The first known ascent was in 1870 by Hazard Stevens and P.B. Van Trump. The pair were feted in Olympia after their successful ascent. • The great American naturalist John Muir climbed Mount Rainier in 1888. He later wrote about his climb: "The view we enjoyed from the summit could hardly be surpassed in sublimity and grandeur; but one feels far from home so high in the sky, so much so that one is inclined to guess that, apart from the acquisition of knowledge and the exhilaration of climbing, more pleasure is to be found at the foot of the mountains than on their tops. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below."
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the people who live there today are descendants of the Europeans. African Americans and Asian Americans make up small but significant portions of the population. North America is the third largest and fourth most populous continent. And if you want evidence of the world’s diversity, this is the place to look. There are people from just about every different cultural and ethnic background; there are great rivers, high mountains, grassy plains, and expansive deserts; there are huge, modern cities,
and tiny, primitive villages. North America is also the richest continent in the world. It has more useful and valuable resources than any other. North America is the only continent that has every kind of climate in the world, from the bitter cold of the Arctic to the steamy tropics. Most of the people in the United States and Canada, and many in the Caribbean islands, speak English. In the rest of the continent, Spanish is the dominant language.
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Did You Know? • The city with the largest population in North America is Mexico City, Mexico. The most populous country is the United States. (2010 census) • The longest river in North America is the Mississippi River.
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• The country of Greenland is the biggest island on the planet.
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• The North American and South American continents are thought to have been named after Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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