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Mount Despair

Mount Despair is a rugged mountain in the North Unit of in Washington state. Northeast of Mount Despair lies the .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 6,483 feet
  • Description: mountain in United States of America
  • Also known as: “Mt. Despair”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Triumph.

Peak
Photo: Wsiegmund, CC BY 2.5.
is a summit in the range of Washington state. Located approximately 5.5 miles west-northwest of the town of , it was named by Lage Wernstedt, a surveyor with the U.S. Forest Service.

Mount Despair

Latitude
48.73429° or 48° 44′ 4″ north
Longitude
-121.36596° or 121° 21′ 58″ west
Elevation
6,483 feet (1,976 metres)
Open location code
84WWPJMM+PJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 356544740
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5792265
Wiki­data ID
Q6920424
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Urdu—“Mount Despair” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Mount Despair”
  • Dutch: “Mount Despair”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ديسپاير”
  • German: “Mount Despair (Washington)”
  • German: “Mount Despair”
  • Ladin: “Mount Despair”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ ڈسپیئر”

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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 Despair”. Photo: Wsiegmund, CC BY 2.5.