How do volcanologists determine the height of eruptive plumes from Yellowstone’s past explosive eruptions? Ironically, you ...
Of all the weird things you can find on Google Maps, Montana might be home to one of the most charming landmarks. When you search Google for 'cool stuff in Montana' - this isn't something that comes ...
The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...
If you walk out to the end of the Canandaigua City Pier you will see a tiny island off to the right. In 1779 the island was bigger, nearly two ...
I n June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women ...
And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...
There are two stops: the first at Denali, a vast National Park, with plenty of scope for travelling on into the mountains. Then Talkeetna, another National Park with its own quirky settlement.
Those incidents along with the one below would spur Grace to develop a bold idea: to lead the first all-women’s team up the great mountain. Two months after Vin Hoeman returned from Denali in ...
Denali is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means “the high one” — the tallest mountain in North America ... place name and imposing a new one on maps, atlases, and our phones’ navigational ...
Denali is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means “the high one” — the tallest mountain in North America — and was referred ... Stripping an Indigenous place name and imposing a new one on maps, atlases, ...
A Japanese geographical name expert said Japan is free to decide on its own if it will follow U.S. President Donald Trump's demands that the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali be renamed.