Abiathar Peak

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Abiathar Peak
File:AbiatharPeak2010YNP.jpg
January 2010
Highest point
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Naming
Pronunciation /əˈbəθər/
Geography
Abiathar Peak is located in Wyoming
Abiathar Peak
Abiathar Peak
Wyoming
Location Yellowstone National Park,
Park County, Wyoming, US
Parent range Absaroka Range
Topo map Abiathar Peak

Abiathar Peak el. 10,928 feet (3,331 m) is a mountain peak in the northeastern section of Yellowstone National Park of Absaroka Range. The peak was named by members of the 1885 Hague Geological Survey to honor Charles Abiathar White, a geologist and paleontologist who had participated in early western geological surveys. White never visited Yellowstone.[3]

Images of Abiathar Peak
Abiathar Peak's namesake, Charles Abiathar White 
Abiathar Peak center between Soda Butte and Amphitheather Mountain 
1977 

See also

Notes

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