California
San Joaquin Valley
Tulare County

Mount Whitney

Mount Whitney is in the range in . At an elevation of 14,505 ft above sea level, it is the highest point in the .
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  • 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”, “Mount Churchill”, “Mt. Whitney”, and “Whitney’s Peak”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Muir and Mount Russell.

Peak
Photo: Poppy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a peak in the Sierra Nevada of , 0.95 miles south of Mount Whitney. This 14,018-foot peak is named in honor of John Muir, a geologist, conservationist and founder of the Sierra Club.

Peak
Photo: Will Beback, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a peak in the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the U.S. state of , about 0.8 miles north of Mount Whitney. Possessing an elevation of 14,094 feet, it is the seventh-highest peak in the state and one of California's twelve fourteeners.

Lake
Photo: Penitentes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a freshwater alpine lake in the eastern in the U.S. state of California, and one of the highest and largest of the alpine lakes of the Sierra.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whitney Portal.

Hamlet
Photo: MostlyDeserts, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the end of the road in , 13.7 miles west of at an elevation of 8,374 feet. is the gateway to Mount Whitney, the highest point in the ; it is the trailhead for the .

Mount Whitney

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
node 944865772
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­survey_point
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5409018
Wiki­data ID
Q235539
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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”
  • Catalan: “Mount Whitney”
  • Catalan: “Whitney”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Whitney (bukid sa Estados Unidos, California, Tulare County)”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Whitney”
  • Chinese: “惠特尼山”
  • Chinese: “惠特尼峰”
  • Croatian: “Mount Whitney”
  • Czech: “Mount Whitney”
  • Dutch: “Mount Whitney”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ويتنى”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Whitney”
  • Esperanto: “Mount Whitney”
  • Estonian: “Mount Whitney”
  • Finnish: “Mount Whitney”
  • French: “mont Whitney”
  • French: “Mont Whitney”
  • French: “Mount Whitney”
  • Galician: “Monte Whitney”
  • Georgian: “უიტნი”
  • Georgian: “უიტნის მთა”
  • German: “Mount Whitney”
  • German: “Mt. Whitney”
  • Greek: “όρος Χουίτνι”
  • Greek: “Όρος Χουίτνυ”
  • Hebrew: “הר ויטני”
  • Icelandic: “Mount Whitney”
  • Italian: “Monte Whitney”
  • Japanese: “ホイットニー山”
  • Japanese: “マウント・ホイットニー”
  • Korean: “휘트니산”
  • Ladin: “Mount Whitney”
  • Latin: “Mons Vitnei”
  • Latin: “Mons Whitney”
  • Lithuanian: “Vitnio kalnas”
  • 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”
  • Persian: “کوهٔ ویتنی”
  • Persian: “مونت ویتنی”
  • Polish: “Mount Whitney”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Whitney”
  • Romansh: “Mount Whitney”
  • Russian: “Гора Уитни”
  • Russian: “Уитни”
  • Scots: “Moont Whitney”
  • Serbian: “Maunt Vitni”
  • Serbian: “Витни”
  • Serbian: “планина Витни”
  • Slovak: “Mount Whitney”
  • Slovenian: “Mount Whitney”
  • Slovenian: “Mt. 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”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Mount Whitney”. Photo: Bureau of Land Management, CC BY 2.0.