Canada's tallest mountain and the U.S.' tallest mountain are less than 650km apart. What mountains are they?
Although many will think that the highest peak in the US is Mt McKinley, in fact President Obama restored the traditional name to North America's tallest mountain.
Denali, located in Alaska, has a height of 6190m. Canada's tallest peak, Mt. Logan, is located in the Yukon and was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada. Its height is 5959m and it is located approximately 625km from Mt Denali.
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48 Comments
billyboy915
Pamela Roland ,
Why don't you drop your bigotry and try rational thought? Maybe you wouldn't sound so foolish.
The name of the mountain was Denali long before white folks came along and gave it a white man's name. President Obama merely restored its original name.
Opening a book now and then might help in disabusing yourself of narrow-minded thinking.
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Jan 1, 2018 12:56PM
Mic Fenst
Denali is just that, meaning "The Great One." There is no word in front of it. The traditional white person's name for it, Mount McKinley, was changed in 2016, after a 40+ year battle of Alaskans asking the federal government to change it to the traditional Native name.
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Jan 1, 2018 3:39PM
billyboy915
David Storer,
Didn't you read the first paragraph? Mt. McKinley was the white man's name for Denali, its original name, which was restored by President Obama.
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Dec 31, 2017 9:54PM
billyboy915
purvisfamily,
President Obama did not "change the name"; he RESTORED the name, correcting an arrogance of white men who CHANGED the name from Denali.
Perhaps if you cracked a book now and then, you might be able to disabuse yourself of narrow-minded thinking and bigotry. Give it a try.
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Jan 12, 2018 9:15PM
billyboy915
Eric Harer,
No, it is Denali and was long before being called Mt. McKinley.
By the way, how's that bigotry and narrow-mindedness working for you?
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Jan 12, 2018 9:07PM
ninakamwene
Denali gave it away. Got it.
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Nov 18, 2018 5:45PM
Albeck1994
David Storer, Denali is McKinley
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Jan 2, 2018 2:59PM
Mary Linduska
Jim Adams, Bombay is now Mumbai, Siam is now Thailand, etc, etc, etc, Change with the times or forever be angry that things haven't stayed the same as you remember them when you were a child.
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May 19, 2020 6:31PM
Todd Van Dell
(Yes.
You're absolutely right.
We'd have to change the entire freaking map.
That much?
You obviously do understand.
You don't like it?
Too fckng bad.)
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Dec 28, 2019 6:43PM
Chris Braun
There's not an inch of the planet that wasn't called something else by previous people in history. However, the current name is usually a reflection of who won the last war. People don't like change, so when you've known one thing your whole life and then it's different it's human nature not to like it. Doesn't make you racist. People dont dislike that Pluto is no longer a planet because they hate the people there. The change just doesn't sit well with our inherent psychology.
The state of Minnesota is a Dakota name (which is very racist against the Anishinabe Ojibwe by the way lol). There's lakes like Minnetonka that retained their Dakota name in English. Lake Superior is often referred to as Gitchi Gummi, its Ojibwe name (though not officially). Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis was recently renamed it's Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska. But unlike the previous examples, the English name was Lake Calhoun first. And I absolutely hate it. I don't even know how to say it. The Dakota are sparse in Minneapolis, and speak English anyway. It's political. And it's dumb.
Don't people realize it's not just a few places here and there, and we would literally have to change the entire map? I don't even know what it's attempting. To show we're sorry for taking Natives land before we were even born? To prove we're not hateful like our recent ancestors? To try to erase history because it gives our feelings booboos? To show that we're better than our ancestors? Why would we need to prove that if we're not guilty of anything? I see liberals quick to jump down other's throats when they disagree with the renaming by calling them racist, narrow-minded, or xenophobic. But can anyone answer what the actual freakin point is? Thanks.
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Dec 19, 2019 5:16AM
Joanne Serin
Suzanne Wilson, those are so annoying!
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Dec 11, 2019 7:16PM
Joanne Serin
weathernco, no longer.
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Dec 11, 2019 7:16PM
Joanne Serin
silrem, no, that's the Nile.
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Dec 11, 2019 7:16PM
Joanne Serin
Niko Hilje, no, now it has its original name, Denali.
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Dec 11, 2019 7:15PM
Joanne Serin
Diane Lynn Kinsman, so did the people of Alaska.
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Dec 11, 2019 7:15PM
Joanne Serin
not your call
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Dec 11, 2019 7:15PM
Joanne Serin
Jim Adams, Obama didn't change or restore the name, but restored the original, Native American, name of the mountain. President Obama didn't need your permission.
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Dec 11, 2019 7:15PM
Jim Adams
For more than 65 years I’ve known it as Mt McKinley. Who the heck gave Obama the right to rename it! Sure the eff wasn’t me.
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Nov 3, 2019 8:46PM
dsneed
I did not know about the change.
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Oct 28, 2019 9:26AM
Diane Lynn Kinsman
Hate names changed. X
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Oct 2, 2019 7:01AM
Carolyn Frederick
Corey Taylor, you must also believe that the earth is flat.
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Jun 29, 2019 7:53AM
Isabel Laing
No idea.
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Jun 22, 2019 12:18AM
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