Mount Hamilton
Mount Hamilton is a mountain in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara County, California. The mountain's peak, at 4,265 feet, overlooks the heavily urbanized Santa Clara Valley and is the site of Lick Observatory, the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory.- Peak rising to 4,196 feet (1,279 metres)
- Description: mountain in the United States
- Also known as“Mount Santa Isabel”“Mt. Hamilton”“Sierra De Santa Isabel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lick Observatory Main Building and Copernicus Peak.
Lick Observatory Main Building
University building
Lick Observatory Main Building is a university building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lick Observatory.
Mount Hamilton
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Latitude
37.34188° or 37° 20′ 31″ north
Longitude
-121.643° or 121° 38′ 35″ west
Open location code
849W89R4+QQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Hamilton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Hamilton (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Hamilton”
- Chinese: “哥白尼頂點”
- Chinese: “哥白尼顶点”
- Chinese: “汉密尔顿山 (加利福尼亚州)”
- Chinese: “汉密尔顿山”
- Chinese: “漢密爾頓山”
- Chinese: “漢彌爾頓山”
- Dutch: “Mount Hamilton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت هاميلتون”
- French: “Mont Hamilton”
- German: “Mount Hamilton”
- Japanese: “ハミルトン山 (カリフォルニア州)”
- Japanese: “ハミルトン山”
- Ladin: “Mount Hamilton”
- Marathi: “माउंट हॅमिल्टन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Hamilton”
- Russian: “Гамильтон (гора)”
- Russian: “Гамильтон”
- Slovenian: “Mount Hamilton”
- Spanish: “Mount Hamilton (California)”
- Spanish: “Mount Hamilton”
- Swedish: “Mount Hamilton”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Crossley Reflector and Alexander Ranch.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lick Observatory Visitor Center and Observatory Peak.
California: Highlights
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