Thunderbolt Peak

Thunderbolt Peak is a peak in the Palisades group located in the Sierra Nevada of . It rises to 14,009 feet and could be considered the thirteenth-highest peak in the state, but since the peak has less than 300 feet of prominence it is usually considered a subsidiary peak of .
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Highlights include North Palisade and Mount Sill.

Peak
Photo: Ansel Adams, Public domain.
is the third-highest mountain in the Sierra Nevada range of , and one of the state's small number of peaks over 14,000 feet, known as fourteeners.

Peak
is one of the fourteeners of the Sierra Nevada in California. It is located in the Palisades, a group of prominent rock peaks with a few small on their flanks.

Peak
, a thirteener, is among the thirty highest peaks of California. It is in the Palisades region of the Sierra Nevada, on the Sierra Crest between and Thunderbolt Peak.

Thunderbolt Peak

Latitude
37.09749° or 37° 5′ 51″ north
Longitude
-118.5173° or 118° 31′ 2″ west
Elevation
13,934 feet (4,247 metres)
Open location code
85933FWM+X3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358800380
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5402516
Wiki­data ID
Q7799118
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ladin—“Thunderbolt Peak” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: Thunderbolt Peak (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California)
  • Cebuano: Thunderbolt Peak
  • Dutch: Thunderbolt Peak
  • Egyptian Arabic: جبل ثونديربولت پياك
  • German: Thunderbolt Peak (Kalifornien)
  • German: Thunderbolt Peak
  • Ladin: Thunderbolt Peak

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