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The name of Denali, the highest mountain in North America, became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali". The name Denali is based on the Koyukon name of the mountain, Deenaalee ('the high one').
Executive Order 14172, titled "Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness", is an executive order signed by Donald Trump, the 47th president of the United States, on January 20, 2025, [1] the day of his second inauguration.
During the Russian ownership of Alaska, the common name for the mountain was Bolshaya Gora (Russian: Большая Гора; bolshaya 'big'; gora 'mountain'), which is the Russian translation of Denali. [27] It was briefly called Densmore's Mountain in the late 1880s and early 1890s [28] after Frank Densmore, a gold prospector who was the ...
The peak went unnamed on George Vancouver's 1794 visit, while an 1839 map by the German Russian explorer Ferdinand von Wrangel used the name coined by the nearby Deg Hit’an people, who called it ...
The Gulf of Mexico was rechristened the Gulf of America, while Denali, the highest mountain in North America, reverted to Mount McKinley — which it was called in the sight of the US government ...
The Denali Wilderness is a wilderness area within Denali National Park that protects the higher elevations of the central Alaska Range, including Denali. The wilderness comprises about one-third of the current national park and preserve—2,146,580 acres (3,354 sq mi; 8,687 km 2 ) that correspond with the former park boundaries before 1980.
Denali, Denali National Park and Preserve (previously Mount McKinley) Black Elk Peak, Black Hills National Forest (previously Harney Peak)
The Mount McKinley National Park Headquarters District in Alaska, United States, in what is now called Denali National Park was the original administrative center of the park. It contains an extensive collection of National Park Service Rustic structures, primarily designed by the National Park Service 's Branch of Plans and Designs in the 1930s.