Kantishna
Kantishna is an unincorporated community in Denali Borough, Alaska, United States, within Denali National Park and Preserve. Founded as a gold mining camp in 1905, it endured longer than similar communities in the area, having been constructed nearest to the source of the gold.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: human settlement in Denali Borough, Alaska, United States of America
- Also known as: “Eureka” and “Kantishna, Alaska”
Kantishna
- Categories: town, unincorporated community, and locality
- Location: Denali, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
63.52528° or 63° 31′ 31″ north
Longitude
-150.95806° or 150° 57′ 29″ west
Elevation
1,667 feet (508 metres)
Open location code
93MFG2GR+4Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Spanish—“Kantishna” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Kantishna”
- Chinese: “坎蒂什納”
- Dutch: “Kantishna”
- French: “Kantishna”
- German: “Kantishna”
- Irish: “Kantishna”
- Japanese: “カンティシュナ”
- Persian: “کانتیشنا، آلاسکا”
- Persian: “کانتیشنا”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانتیشنا، آلاسکا”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانتیشنا”
- Spanish: “Kantishna (Alaska)”
- Spanish: “Kantishna”
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