Английская Википедия:Gale Peak
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Gale Peak is a 10,690-foot-elevation (3,258 meter) mountain summit located in Madera County, California, United States. It is situated in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in the southeast corner of Yosemite National Park, on the common boundary which the park shares with the Ansel Adams Wilderness. The mountain rises Шаблон:Convert south of Fernandez Pass, Шаблон:Convert south of the Clark Range, and Шаблон:Convert north-northwest of Madera Peak. Precipitation runoff from this landform drains west into tributaries of the South Fork Merced River, and east into tributaries of the San Joaquin River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises Шаблон:Convert above Upper Chain Lake in Шаблон:Convert. The peak can be climbed via the Шаблон:YDS northwest ridge which separates Breeze Lake from the Chain Lakes.[1]
History
This geographical feature was named in 1894 by Lieutenant Nathaniel Fish McClure who prepared a map of Yosemite National Park for use by Army troops.[2] The toponym honors Captain George Henry Goodwin Gale (1858–1920), 4th Cavalry US Army, and the acting military superintendent of Yosemite Park in 1894.[3] The US Army had jurisdiction over Yosemite National Park from 1891 to 1914, and each summer 150 cavalrymen traveled from the Presidio of San Francisco to patrol the park. This geographical feature's toponym was officially adopted in 1932 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[4]
The first ascent of the summit was made in 1920 by Lawrence Fley, Freeman Jones, and Thomas Jones.[1]
Climate
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Gale Peak is located in an alpine climate zone.[5] Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall onto the range.
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External links
- Weather forecast: Gale Peak
- George Henry Goodwin Gale: Findagrave.com
- George H. G. Gale: Military history
- Gale Peak (photo): Flickr
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокA Climber’s Guideне указан текст - ↑ Erwin Gustav Gudde, William Bright, California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names, 1998, University of California Press, Шаблон:ISBN, page 140.
- ↑ Francis P. Farquhar, Place Names of the High Sierra (1926)
- ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокgnisне указан текст - ↑ Шаблон:Cite encyclopedia
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