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Pikes Peak

(Encyclopedia)Pikes Peak, 14,110 ft (4,301 m) high, central Colo., in the Front Range of the Rocky Mts.; discovered by U.S. explorer Zebulon Pike in 1806. There are many higher peaks in the Rockies, but this is the...

Front Range

(Encyclopedia)Front Range, an eastern range of the U.S. Rocky Mts., bordering the Great Plains and extending c.300 mi (480 km) S from SE Wyo. to the Arkansas River, S central Colo. It has several peaks, including G...

Djaja Peak

(Encyclopedia)Djaja Peak, Indonesia: see Jaya Peak. ...

Communism Peak

(Encyclopedia)Communism Peak: see Ismoili Somoni Peak. ...

Harney Peak

(Encyclopedia)Harney Peak, S.Dak.: see Black Hills. ...

Gannett Peak

(Encyclopedia)Gannett Peak, Wyo.: see Wind River Range. ...

Garmo Peak

(Encyclopedia)Garmo Peak: see Ismoili Somoni Peak. ...

Jaya Peak

(Encyclopedia)Jaya or Djaja Peak both: jäˈyə [key], highest mountain peak on Mt. Jayawijaya, in the Sudirman Mts., Papua prov., Indonesia, on W New Guinea, rising to 16,503 ft (5,031 m). It is the highest point ...

Lenin Peak

(Encyclopedia)Lenin Peak or Ibn Sina Peak, formerly Kaufmann Peak koufˈmən [key], 23,405 ft (7,134 m) high, on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. Also known as Kuh-i-Gamo [warm mountain], it is the highest ...

Lassen Peak

(Encyclopedia)Lassen Peak: see under Lassen Volcanic National Park. ...