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Mount Katahdin (/ k ə ˈ t ɑː d ɪ n / kə-TAH-din) is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Maine at 5,269 feet (1,606 m). Named Katahdin , which means "Great Mountain", [ 3 ] by the Penobscot Native Americans , it is within Northeast Piscataquis , Piscataquis County , and is the centerpiece of Baxter State Park .
Mount Katahdin, photographed from the park. Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is a U.S. national monument spanning 87,563 acres (137 sq mi) of mountains and forestland in northern Penobscot County, Maine, including a section of the East Branch Penobscot River. [1] The monument is located on the eastern border of Maine's Baxter State ...
The Katahdin is a historic steamboat berthed on Moosehead Lake in Greenville, Maine. Built in 1914 at the Bath Iron Works, it at first served the tourist trade on the lake before being converted to a towboat hauling lumber. It was fully restored in the 1990s by the nonprofit Moosehead Maritime Museum, and is again giving tours on the lake.
Sugarloaf Mountain is a ski mountain located in Carrabassett Valley, Franklin County, Maine. It is the third highest peak in the state, after Mount Katahdin's Baxter and Hamlin peaks . Sugarloaf is flanked to the south by Spaulding Mountain .
Of these 230 major 100-kilometer summits of North America, 103 are located in the United States (excluding four in Hawaiʻi), 50 in Canada, 33 in México, 21 in Greenland, four in Honduras, three in Cuba, two in Guatemala, two in Haiti, two in Panamá, and one each in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ...
The inspiration behind Katahdin was Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen, an advocate of a coastal defense navy.Ammen was impressed by the British torpedo ram HMS Polyphemus.Unlike Polyphemus, which was primarily a torpedo boat, with ramming a secondary function, the American design was for a pure ram, with no torpedoes carried.
Katahdin Falls is the tallest waterfall in Maine, in the United States, dropping up to 800 vertical feet (244 m) with a main drop of 280 feet (85 m). It is located in Baxter State Park in Piscataquis County opposite of Witherlie Ravine, on Mount Katahdin on a tributary of Katahdin Stream .
This article should be title Katahdin (Mountain) not Mount Katahdin. Since Katahdin means "Greatest Mountain" the article currently says "Mountain Greatest Mountain" Steene01 20:36, 3 June 2016 (UTC) The article addresses that issue - Mount Katahdin is the official USGS name. - DavidWBrooks 21:06, 3 June 2016 (UTC)