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Dunraven Peak

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Topo map
  
Mount Washburn

Mountain range
  
Washburn Range

Elevation
  
3,008 m

Parent range
  
Washburn Range

Dunraven Peak

Location
  
Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming

Similar
  
Mount Hornaday, The Thunderer, Mount Norris, Abiathar Peak, Barronette Peak

Dunraven Peak el. 9,869 feet (3,008 m) is a mountain peak in the Washburn Range of Yellowstone National Park. In 1874, just two years after the park's creation, the Earl of Dunraven, a titled Englishman made a visit to Yellowstone in conjunction with a hunting expedition to the Northern Rockies. He was so impressed with the park, that he devoted well over 150 pages to Yellowstone in his The Great Divide, published in London in 1874. The Great Divide was one of the earliest works to praise and publicize the park.

Map of Dunraven Peak, Wyoming 82190, USA

In 1878 during a U.S. Geological Survey of the park, Henry Gannett, a geographer working with the survey, named a peak just two miles southwest of Mount Washburn in the honor of the Earl of Dunraven and the service his book had done for the park. In 1879, Philetus Norris, the park superintendent gave a pass on the Grand Loop Road between Tower and Canyon the name Dunraven Pass because of its proximity to Dunraven Peak.

References

Dunraven Peak Wikipedia