It’s official! McKinley is Denali, again

The president used his executive power to officially restore theKoyukon Athabascan name for the peakat the center of Denali National Park. The 20,320 foot-mountain has been known by Natives, and later locals (and later most everybody), as “Denali” (meaning “the great one” or “the high one”) for thousands of years.

Learn more about Denali National Park.

Photo credit: NPS/Tim Rains

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Published on August 31, 2015 07:10
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