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Gold Mountain (Cantonese: Gāmsāan, 金山) is a historical name for either San Francisco, the State of California, or broadly the western regions of North America, including British Columbia, Canada.
Gold Mountain is a 1,761-foot (537 m) summit in the Blue Hills on the Kitsap Peninsula of Washington state, in the United States' Pacific Northwest.It is the highest point on the Kitsap Peninsula and the highest point in Kitsap County, Washington, [1] and nearby 1,639-foot (500 m) Green Mountain is the second-highest point.
Gold Mountain and similar may refer to Gold Mountain (toponym), a calque nickname referring to a settlement with a surge of Chinese population caused by a gold rush; Gold Mountain (Washington), a mountain in Kitsap County, Washington; Gold Mountain, California, a community in California; Gold Mountain Range, a mountain range in Nevada
The mountain had been unofficially named Mount McKinley in 1896 by a gold prospector and officially by the federal government in 1917 to commemorate William McKinley, who was President of the United States from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. The name Denali is based on the Koyukon name of the mountain, Deenaalee ('the high one').
The California gold rush (1848–1855) began on January 24, ... at first in modest numbers to Gum San ("Gold Mountain"), the name given to California in Chinese. ...
The mountain, which has an elevation of more than 20,000 feet (6,100 meters), was named Mount McKinley in 1896 after a gold prospector exploring the region heard that McKinley, a champion of the ...
Rank Name Range Elevation (ft) Prominence (ft) Parent (proximate) Isolation (mi) Coordinates Notes 1 Gold Mountain: Blue Hills 1761 1531 Olympic Mountains foothills Green Hill, Jefferson County
The Blue Hills just west of Bremerton, Washington, also called the Bremerton Hills, Bald Hills, and Wildcat Hills, consist of Gold Mountain, Green Mountain, and several informally named hills. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Reaching an elevation of 1761 feet (537 meters), a thousand feet above the glacial till that fills the Puget Lowland, [ 3 ] they form a ...