Thunderbolt Peak
Thunderbolt Peak is a peak in the Palisades group located in the Sierra Nevada of California. 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 North Palisade.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jonathan Fox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include North Palisade and Mount Sill.
North Palisade
Peak
Photo: Ansel Adams, Public domain.
North Palisade is the third-highest mountain in the Sierra Nevada range of California, and one of the state's small number of peaks over 14,000 feet, known as fourteeners.
Mount Sill
Peak
Photo: Jonathan Fox, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Sill 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 glaciers on their flanks.
Mount Winchell
Peak
Photo: Justin at Flickr, CC BY 2.0.
Mount Winchell, 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 Mount Agassiz and Thunderbolt Peak.
Thunderbolt Peak
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 13,934 feet
- Description: mountain in United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Fresno County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.09749° or 37° 5′ 51″ northLongitude
-118.5173° or 118° 31′ 2″ westElevation
13,934 feet (4,247 metres)Open location code
85933FWM+X3OpenStreetMap ID
node 358800380OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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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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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 “Thunderbolt Peak”. Photo: Jonathan Fox, CC BY-SA 2.0.