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Coordinates:
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37°10′ N 118°40′ W
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Topo map:
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USGS Mount Darwin
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First ascent:
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August 12,
1908
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route:
<td style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220>basic snow/glacier climb
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Mount Darwin is a flat-topped
mountain, named for
evolution-theorist
Charles Darwin, in the
Sierra Nevada range in
Fresno County,
California that is a popular climb. It is located in the
Kings Canyon National Park and the
Inyo National Forest. It was first climbed on
August 12,
1908 by
E. C. Andrews and
Willard D. Johnson.
The modern name of the mountain was given to it in
1895 by
Theodore S. Solomons and
E. C. Bonner (of the
United States Geological Survey) as part of a series of mountains named after
naturalists. Other nearby mountains include
Mount Fiske,
Mount Haeckel,
Mount Huxley,
Mount Spencer, and
Mount Wallace. (This assortment of mountains is also known as the
Evolution Region.)
A similar exercise in naming mountains after naturalists and others involved in the controversy surrounding evolution in the late nineteenth century, also occurred at the
West Coast Range in
Tasmania,
Australia.
Nearby landmarks include Darwin Glacier and Darwin Canyon.
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