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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Elf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,196 feet
- Description: mountain in the United States
- Also known as: “Mount Santa Isabel”, “Mt. Hamilton”, and “Sierra De Santa Isabel”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lick Observatory Main Building and Copernicus Peak.
Lick Observatory Main Building
University building
Photo: Semiautonomous, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lick Observatory Main Building is an university building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lick Observatory.
Lick Observatory
Photo: Seano1, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California. It is on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, United States.
Mount Hamilton
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Santa Clara County, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.34188° or 37° 20′ 31″ northLongitude
-121.643° or 121° 38′ 35″ westElevation
4,196 feet (1,279 metres)Open location code
849W89R4+QQOpenStreetMap ID
node 358767116OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Hamilton from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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”
- 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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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lick Observatory Visitor Center and Observatory Peak.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Hamilton”. Photo: Elf, CC BY-SA 3.0.