Lincoln Peak is a tall peak subsidiary to
Mount Baker
Mount Baker (Lummi: '; nok, Kw’eq Smaenit or '), also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a active glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount ...
in the
Cascade Range in the
U.S. state
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of
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
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. It lies within the
Mount Baker Wilderness
Mount Baker Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in the western Cascade Range of northern Washington state. Its eastern border is shared with the boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and North ...
and
Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest.
Mount or Mounts may also refer to:
Places
* Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England
* Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...
. At over in elevation it is the 16th-highest peak in Washington and 31st-highest in the Cascades, however Lincoln Peak's
prominence
In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
is only .
The nearest higher peak is
Colfax Peak, to the east-northeast. Lincoln, Colfax, and Seward Peaks are erosional remnants from a much older eruptive episode, with more recent volcanic activity resulting in the nearby cone of the Mount Baker volcano.
See also
*
List of mountains of the United States
*
List of mountains by elevation
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby unio ...
References
External links
* {{cite web
, title = Lincoln Peak
, publisher = Interactive Outdoors
, work = PEAKWARE World Mountain Encyclopedia
, url = http://www.peakware.com/peaks.html?pk=3531
, accessdate = 2014-08-18
Mountains of Washington (state)
Mountains of Whatcom County, Washington