The great Denali, as you may have heard, is eighty-three
feet shorter than previously thought. As a result of a federal-state radar
mapping project, surveyors now put the mountain’s height at 20,237 feet, still
686 feet higher than Canada’s Mount Logan, the second-tallest peak on the
continent.
We’re a little behind the Alaska media in
announcing this story, but AHS’s own Katie Ringsmuth was at the Map Collectors
conference in Fairbanks earlier this month where Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell made
the Denali announcement. Katie snapped this photo, and there’s our scoop on
this story!
According to Gary Holton, director
of UAF's Alaska Native Language Archive who presented at the conference,
what we Alaskans call Mount Foraker in the Koyukon language is called Deenaalee
Be'ot (the high one's wife). Another excellent example of why more Alaska
Native place names should be included on the map!
Read the Anchorage Daily News story here:
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