Basket Dome

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Basket Dome
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Basket Dome to the right of North Dome
Highest point
Elevation 7,612 ft (2,320 m)  NGVD 29 [1]
Prominence 212 ft (65 m) [1]
Coordinates 37°45′49″N119°33′03″W / 37.7635359°N 119.550719°W / 37.7635359; -119.550719 [2]
Geography
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Basket Dome
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Basket Dome
Location Mariposa County, California, U.S.
Parent range Sierra Nevada
Topo map USGS Yosemite Falls

Basket Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, United States.

Basket Dome was named from a Native American legend involving a woman carrying a basket, who was turned by anger into stone, forming the dome. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Basket Dome". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  2. ↑ "Basket Dome". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  3. ↑ Browning, Peter (2005). Yosemite Place Names: The Historic Background of Geographic Names in Yosemite National Park. Great West Books. p. 8. ISBN   978-0-944220-19-1.


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