Mount Katahdin
Katahdin from 10,000 feet
Elevation	5,267 feet (1,606 m)
Location	Maine, USA
Range	Appalachian Mountains
Prominence	4,292 feet (1,308 m)
Coordinates	45°54′15.68″N, 68°55′16.59″W
Topo map	USGS Mount Katahdin
Type	granite
Age of rock	Devonian
First ascent	1804 by Joseph Turner
Easiest route	hike

Mount Katahdin (USGS name) is the highest mountain in Maine. Called Katahdin by people local to the peak and by the Penobscot Indians: the term meaning "The Greatest Mountain". It is located in east central Piscataquis County about 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Millinocket. It divides the East and West Branches of the Penobscot River. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ... The metre, or meter (symbol: m) is the SI base unit of length. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands or separated from other mountain ranges by passes or rivers. ... A rainy day in the Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina The Appalachian Mountains (French: les Appalaches) are a vast system of North American mountains, partly in Canada, but mostly in the United States, forming a zone, from 100 to 300 miles wide, running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 1... In topography, prominence, also known as autonomous height, relative height, shoulder drop or prime factor (in Europe), is a concept used in the categorization of hills and mountains. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... It has been suggested that Topographic profile be merged into this article or section. ... The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a scientific agency of the United States government. ... Mountains can be characterized in several ways. ... Quarrying granite for the Mormon Temple, Utah Territory. ... // The geological time scale is used by geologists and other scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the History of Earth. ... Disambiguation: Devonian is sometimes used to refer to the Southwestern Brythonic language, and the people of the county of Devon are sometimes referred to as Devonians The Devonian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic era. ... In climbing, a first ascent (FA) is the first climb to reach the top of a mountain, or the first to follow a particular climbing route. ... 1804 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Southern and northern Mount Everest climbing routes as seen from the International Space Station. ... Two hikers in the Mount Hood National Forest Eagle_Creek hiking Hiking is a form of walking, undertaken with the specific purpose of exploring and enjoying the scenery. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... The Penobscot are a sovereign people indigenous to what is now the northeastern U.S. and Maritime Canada, particularly Maine. ... Piscataquis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maine. ... Millinocket is a mill town in Penobscot County, Maine, USA. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 5,203. ... Panorama of the Penobscot River in Millinocket, Maine. ...

On the sides of Katahdin are four glacial cirques carved into the granite by alpine glaciers and in these cirques behind moraines and eskers are several picturesque ponds. Katahdin is one of the best sites to view glacial effects in the Eastern States. From the low lake country to the south and east, the mountain appears to be one of the tallest and most abrupt in the Appalachian Mountains. A cirque is an amphitheatre-like valley of glacial origin, formed by glacial erosion at the head of the glacier. ... A glacier is a large, long-lasting river of ice that is formed on land and moves in response to gravity. ... Moraine at Mono Lake, California, United States Moraines clearly seen on a side glacier of the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland. ... Eskers are long, winding ridges of stratified sand and gravel which occur in glaciated and formerly glaciated regions of Europe and North America. ... A rainy day in the Great Smoky Mountains, Western North Carolina The Appalachian Mountains (French: les Appalaches) are a vast system of North American mountains, partly in Canada, but mostly in the United States, forming a zone, from 100 to 300 miles wide, running from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 1...

Fauna include bear, deer and moose as well as swarms of bloodthirsty black flies (a sort of midge) in the spring. Among the birds are Bicknell's Thrush and various songbirds and raptors. The mountain has its own indigenous butterfly related to an arctic type. The flora include pine, spruce, fir, hemlock, beech, maple, birch, aspen, and diapensia. Subfamilies Parasimuliinae Simuliinae Genera Araucnephia Araucnephioides Archicnephia Austrosimulium Baisomyia Cnephia Cnesia Cnesiamima Crozetia Ectemnia Gigantodax Greniera Gydarina Gymnopais Kovalevimyia Levitinia Lutzsimulium Mayacnephia Metacnephia Paracnephia Parasimulium Paraustrosimulium Pedrowygomyia Prosimulium Simuliites Simulimima Simulium Stegopterna Sulcicnephia Tlalocomyia Twinnia A black fly (sometimes called a buffalo gnat or turkey gnat) is any member of... Midges on a car Midges are small, two-winged flying insects. ... Binomial name Catharus bicknelli (Ridgway, 1882) The Bicknells Thrush, Catharus bicknelli, is a medium-sized thrush. ... Species About 115. ... Species About 35; see text. ... FIR may stand for: finite impulse response (a property of some digital filters) far infrared, i. ... The word Hemlock can refer to a number of things: Several poisonous plants in the Parsley family, Apiaceae (formerly Umbelliferae) are called hemlock: Poison hemlock is a common European plant, Conium maculatum; it contains the alkaloid Coniine. ... Species Fagus crenata - Japanese Beech Fagus engleriana - Chinese Beech Fagus grandifolia - American Beech Fagus hayatae - Taiwan Beech Fagus japonica - Japanese Blue Beech Fagus longipetiolata - South Chinese Beech Fagus lucida - Shining Beech Fagus mexicana - Mexican Beech or Haya Fagus orientalis - Oriental Beech Fagus sylvatica - European Beech Beech (Fagus) is a genus... Range of Maples Species See List of Acer species Maples are trees or shrubs of the genus Acer. ... Species Many species; see text and classification Birch is the name of any tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, closely related to the beech/oak family, Fagaceae. ... Species Populus adenopoda Populus alba Populus grandidentata Populus sieboldii Populus tremula Populus tremuloides Aspens are trees of the willow family and comprise a section of the poplar genus, Populus sect. ... Binomial name Diapensia lapponica L. Subspecies subsp. ...

The treacherous ascent up Katahdin

As the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail and southern terminus of the International Appalachian Trail, Katahdin is a popular hiking and backpacking destination and the centerpiece of Baxter State Park. Among the Native Americans at the time of contact, it was believed to be the home of the storm god Pamola, and thus an area to be avoided. It is referred to 60 years after Field’s climb of Agiokochuk (Mount Washington) in the writings of John Giles (Gyles) a teenage colonial who was captured near Portland, Maine in 1689 by the Abenaki. While indentured among the Abenaki they wandered up and down the rivers including the Penobscot, so he saw the “Teddon”. He remarked that it was higher than the White Hills above the Saco. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1952x2576, 2088 KB)[edit] Summary The treacherous assent up Katahadin. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1952x2576, 2088 KB)[edit] Summary The treacherous assent up Katahadin. ... The Appalachian National Scenic Trail, generally known as the Appalachian Trail or simply The A.T., is a 2,174 mile (3500 km) marked hiking trail in the eastern United States, extending between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine. ... The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; French: Sentier International des Appalaches) is a hiking trail which runs from the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail at Mount Katahdin, Maine to the northernmost tip of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador. ... Mount Katahdin is the highest peak in Maine. ... The Penobscot are a sovereign people indigenous to what is now the northeastern U.S. and Maritime Canada, particularly Maine. ... Mount Washington (formerly Agiocochook) is, at 6,288 ft. ... Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. ... Abenaki couple The Abenaki (also Wabanaki), meaning people of the dawn, are a tribe of Native Americans/First Nations belonging to the Algonquian peoples of northeasternNorth America. ... Abenaki couple The Abenaki (also Wabanaki), meaning people of the dawn, are a tribe of Native Americans/First Nations belonging to the Algonquian peoples of northeasternNorth America. ... The Penobscot are a sovereign people indigenous to what is now the northeastern U.S. and Maritime Canada, particularly Maine. ...

The first recorded climb of "Catahrdin" was by Massachusetts surveyor Charles Turner in August of 1804. In the 1840’s Henry David Thoreau climbed Katahdin and his ascent is recorded in a well known chapter of "The Maine Woods". A few years later Theodore Winthrop wrote about his visit in "Life in the Open Air". Painters Frederick Church and Marsden Hartley are well known artists who created landscapes of Katahdin. The most famous hike to the summit is called the Knife Edge, which traverses the ridge between Pamola Peak and Baxter Peak. Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862; born David Henry Thoreau) was an American author, development critic, naturalist, transcendentalist, pacifist, tax resister and philosopher who is most famous for his written account, Walden, a reflection upon simple living amongst nature, and his essay, Civil Disobedience... Theodore Winthrop. ... Frederic Edwin Church (May 4, 1826 - April 7, 1900) was an American landscape painter born in Hartford, Connecticut. ... Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was born in Lewiston, Maine, USA. He began his art training at the Cleveland Art Institute after moving to Cleveland, Ohio in 1892. ...

A hiker who has just completed the Appalachian Trail

In the 1930s Governor Percival Baxter began to acquire land and finally deeded more than 200,000 acres (809 km²) to the State of Maine for a park. Today, Baxter State Park is open year round, though strictly regulated in winter. The overnight camping season is from May 15th to October 15th of each year. ImageMetadata File history File links Northterm. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Northterm. ... Percival Proctor Baxter (November 22, 1876 – June 12, 1969) was a Republican governor of the U.S. state of Maine who served from 1921 to 1925. ... An acre is an English unit of area, which is also frequently used in the United States and some Commonwealth countries. ... Mount Katahdin is the highest peak in Maine. ...

Katahdin is part of a laccolith (an intrusion of magma underground) that formed in the Acadian orogeny, when an island arc collided with eastern North America approximately 400 million years ago. A laccolith is an igneous intrusion (or concordant pluton) that has been injected between two layers of sedimentary rock. ... Magma is molten rock located beneath the surface of the Earth (or any other rocky planet), and which often collects in a magma chamber. ... The Acadian orogeny is a middle Paleozoic deformation, especially in the northern Appalachians, between Alabama and Newfoundland. ... An island arc is a type of archipelago formed by plate tectonics as one oceanic tectonic plate subducts under another and produces magma. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...

Two US Navy ships have been named USS Katahdin after the mountain. Katahdin is also the name of a 1914 steamboat (later converted to diesel) owned by the Moosehead Marine Museum that plies the waters of Moosehead Lake in northern Maine. The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... Two vessels of the United States Navy have been named USS Katahdin, after Mount Katahdin in Maine. ... 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Paddle steamers - Lucerne-Switzerland Left: original paddlewheel from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. ... Diesel or diesel fuel is a specific fractional distillate of fuel oil (mostly petroleum) that is used as fuel in a diesel engine invented by German engineer Rudolf Diesel. ... Map of Moosehead Lake. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

The composer Alan Hovhaness composed a Sonata for piano, Op. 405 ("Mount Katahdin"). Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. ...

External links

• Mt. Katahdin Webcam
• Mt. Katahdin on Peakware (photos)
• Baxter State Park Authority Official Website
• Summit Log (October 2005 summit log)
• Henry D. Thoreau's Katadin essay
• Katahdin at Summitpost many photos

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