Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is in the Sierra Nevada range in California. At an elevation of 14,505 ft above sea level, it is the highest point in the contiguous United States.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 14,475 feet
- Description: highest mountain in California and the contiguous United States
- Also known as: “Fisherman’s Peak”, “Fishermans Peak”, “Mons Vitnei”, “Mount Churchill”, “Mt. Whitney”, “Vitnio kalnas”, “Whitney”, “Whitney’s Peak”, “όρος Χουίτνι”, “Витни”, “Гора Уитни”, “کوهٔ ویتنی”, “مونت ویتنی”, “マウント・ホイットニー”, and “惠特尼山”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mount Muir and Mount Russell.
Mount Muir
Peak
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitney Portal.
Mount Whitney
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Tulare County, San Joaquin Valley, California, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.5786° or 36° 34′ 43″ north
Longitude
-118.2921° or 118° 17′ 32″ west
Elevation
14,475 feet (4,412 metres)
Open location code
8583HPH5+C4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=survey_point
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
GeoNames ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mount Whitney” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mount Whitney”
- Arabic: “جبل ويتني”
- Armenian: “Ուիթնի”
- Asturian: “Monte Whitney”
- Azerbaijani: “Uitni dağı”
- Azerbaijani: “Vitni dağı”
- Basque: “Whitney mendia”
- Belarusian: “Гара Уітні”
- Belarusian: “Уітні”
- Belarusian: “Ўітні”
- Breton: “Menez Whitney”
- Bulgarian: “Уитни”
- Catalan: “mont Whitney”
- Catalan: “Mont Whitney”
- Cebuano: “Mount Whitney (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California, Tulare County)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Whitney”
- Chinese: “惠特尼峰”
- Croatian: “Mount Whitney”
- Czech: “Mount Whitney”
- Dutch: “Mount Whitney”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ويتنى”
- Esperanto: “Monto Whitney”
- Estonian: “Mount Whitney”
- Finnish: “Mount Whitney”
- French: “mont Whitney”
- French: “Mont Whitney”
- Galician: “Monte Whitney”
- Georgian: “უიტნი”
- Georgian: “უიტნის მთა”
- German: “Mount Whitney”
- Greek: “Όρος Χουίτνυ”
- Hebrew: “הר ויטני”
- Icelandic: “Mount Whitney”
- Italian: “Monte Whitney”
- Japanese: “ホイットニー山”
- Korean: “휘트니산”
- Ladin: “Mount Whitney”
- Latin: “Mons Whitney”
- Lithuanian: “Vitnis”
- Malayalam: “മൗണ്ട് വിറ്റ്നി”
- Maori: “Maunga Whitney”
- Maori: “Mount Whitney”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Whitney”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Whitney”
- Norwegian: “Mount Whitney”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Whitney”
- Persian: “کوه ویتنی”
- Polish: “Mount Whitney”
- Portuguese: “Monte Whitney”
- Romansh: “Mount Whitney”
- Russian: “Уитни”
- Scots: “Moont Whitney”
- Serbian: “Maunt Vitni”
- Serbian: “планина Витни”
- Slovak: “Mount Whitney”
- Slovenian: “Mount Whitney”
- Spanish: “Monte Whitney”
- Swahili: “Mlima Whitney”
- Swedish: “Mount Whitney”
- Tamil: “விட்னி மலை”
- Turkish: “Whitney Dağı”
- Ukrainian: “Вітні”
- Ukrainian: “Гора Уїтні”
- Venetian: “Monte Whitney”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Whitney”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Whitney”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹلہ وٹنی”
- Wu Chinese: “惠特尼峰”
- Yue Chinese: “惠特尼峰”
- “Mount Whitney”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Bighorn Park and Whitney Portal Trailhead.
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Worth a closer look: Visalia and Porterville.
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