Silliman Pass

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Silliman Pass
Elevation 10,160 ft (3,097 m)
Traversed by hiking trail, no roads
Location Tulare County, United States
Range Sierra Nevada
Coordinates 36°39′45″N118°42′24″W / 36.66250°N 118.70667°W / 36.66250; -118.70667 Coordinates: 36°39′45″N118°42′24″W / 36.66250°N 118.70667°W / 36.66250; -118.70667
Topo map USGS Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks

Silliman Pass is a mountain pass on the border of Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park. [1]

Mountain pass Route through a mountain range or over a ridge

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Sequoia National Park national park in the Sierra Nevada mountains, California, USA

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Kings Canyon National Park national park in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, USA

Kings Canyon National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fresno and Tulare Counties, California. Originally established in 1890 as General Grant National Park, the park was greatly expanded and renamed to Kings Canyon National Park on March 4, 1940. The park's namesake, Kings Canyon, is a rugged glacier-carved valley more than a mile (1,600 m) deep. Other natural features include multiple 14,000-foot (4,300 m) peaks, high mountain meadows, swift-flowing rivers, and some of the world's largest stands of giant sequoia trees. Kings Canyon is north of and contiguous with Sequoia National Park, and the two are jointly administered by the National Park Service as the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

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It stands 10,160 feet (3,100 m) high. [2]

Location

It stands on the Kings-Kaweah Divide, loosely north of Mount Silliman., [3] It is directly south of Twin Peaks. [4]

The Kings-Kaweah Divide is a divide in Sequoia National Park. It splits the watersheds of the Kaweah Rivers and the Kings River,.

Mount Silliman

Mount Silliman is a mountain in California along the boundary between Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park The summit, at 11,193 feet (3,412 m) is on the Sillman Crest, a part of the Kings-Kaweah Divide.

Twin Peaks (Sequoia National Park)

Twin Peaks is a double summit, in Sequoia National Park.

For whom it was named

Like Mount Silliman, it was named for Benjamin Silliman, professor of chemistry at Yale College. [5]

Benjamin Silliman early American chemist and science educator

Benjamin Silliman was an early American chemist and science educator. He was one of the first American professors of science, at Yale College, the first person to distill petroleum in America, and a founder of the American Journal of Science, the oldest continuously published scientific journal in the United States.

Yale College undergraduate liberal arts college of Yale University

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References

  1. ↑ "Twin Lakes Trail, Sequoia National Park" . Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "2015 Wilderness Trip Planner" (PDF). 2015. Retrieved 3 January 2017.
  3. ↑ Hiking trip | EveryTrail: Twin Lakes and Silliman Pass - Hiking trip | EveryTrail, accessdate: January 4, 2017
  4. ↑ Silliman Pass Topo Map, Tulare County CA (Mount Silliman Area): Silliman Pass Topo Map, Tulare County CA (Mount Silliman Area), accessdate: January 4, 2017
  5. ↑ GeoQuery: GNIS info near 1177 VAN NESS AVE, FRESNO, CA 93721 Latitude 36.7366 Longitude -119.7912: GeoQuery: GNIS info near 1177 VAN NESS AVE, FRESNO, CA 93721 Latitude 36.7366 Longitude -119.7912, accessdate: January 4, 2017


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