Olympic Mountains

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The Brothers from the sea

The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington state in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The southern limit of the mountains shall be the Chehalis River south to include the Willapa Hills to.

The highest point is Mount Olympus at 2428m. The largest part of the mountain range is part of the Olympic National Park. The mountain has numerous snowfields and glaciers, with a lower level have a height of 1500 m.

The first Europeans who got the Olympic Mountains to the face, was the Spaniard Juan José Pérez Hernández in 1774, who called him " Sierra Nevada de Santa Rosalia ". The Englishman John Meares named him 1788 "Mount Olympus " after the Greek mountain Olympus.

Major mountains of the mountain range are:

  • Mount Olympus with eight glaciers ( 2428 m)
  • Mount Constance (2360 m)
  • Mount Anderson ( 2231 m), spring from the waters that flow into the Pacific, in the Juan de Fuca Strait and the Hood Canal
  • The Brothers, twin peaks ( South Summit: 2092 m)
  • Mount Deception ( 2374 m)
  • Mountains in North America
  • Mountains in the United States
  • Geography (Washington)
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