Dunraven Peak

Dunraven Peak
Elevation	9,869 ft (3,008 m) [1]
Location
Location	Yellowstone National Park, Park County, Wyoming
Range	Washburn Range
Coordinates	44°46′58″N 110°28′10″W / 44.78278°N 110.46944°W / 44.78278; -110.46944 (Dunraven Peak)Coordinates: 44°46′58″N 110°28′10″W / 44.78278°N 110.46944°W / 44.78278; -110.46944 (Dunraven Peak)[1]
Topo map	Mount Washburn

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.

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^[2].

Images of Dunraven Peak

Duraven Peak's namesake, Earl of Dunraven

See also

• Mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National Park

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} "Dunraven Peak". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1587932. 
2. ^ Haines, Aubrey L. (1996). Yellowstone Place Names-Mirrors of History. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado. pp. 104–106. ISBN 087081382X.