Yucca Mountain
Yucca Mountain is a mountain in Nevada, near its border with California, approximately 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Located in the Great Basin, Yucca Mountain is east of the Amargosa Desert, south of the Nevada Test and Training Range and in the Nevada National Security Site.- Peak rising to 6,558 feet (1,999 metres)
- Description: mountain in Nevada, United States
- Also known as“Joshua Mountain”“Yucca Mountains”
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Latitude
36.94175° or 36° 56′ 30″ north
Longitude
-116.45524° or 116° 27′ 19″ west
Open location code
8585WGRV+PW
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Yucca Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yucca Mountain”
- Chinese: “尤卡山”
- Dutch: “Yucca Mountain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ياوكا”
- French: “Yucca Mountain”
- German: “Yucca Mountain”
- Italian: “Yucca Mountain”
- Japanese: “ユッカ山”
- Korean: “유카 산”
- Ladin: “Yucca Mountain”
- Polish: “góra Yucca”
- Polish: “Yucca Mountain”
- Polish: “Yucca”
- Portuguese: “Montanha Yucca”
- Spanish: “Yucca Mountain”
- Swedish: “Yucca Mountain”
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