Elevation:
Feet: 5114
Meters:
Rank:
2nd High Peak
2nd Adirondack Peak
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History:
Namesake: Algonquin Peak was named after the Algonquin American Indians, an alliance of tribes native to Quebec, Ontario, and some parts of the American northeast.
Santanoni Peak Timeline
1837
1921: On On August 24th, 1921 George Marshall, Bob Marshall, and Herbert Clark, the three men who were the first to climb all 46 High Peaks, made their ascent of Santanoni Peak. It was their thirty-ninth High Peak and would wind up being the twenty-fourthof twenty-six High Peaks they would climb that year.
- Marshall, Bob, George Marshall, and Phil Brown. Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks: Writings of a Pioneering Peak-bagger, Pond-hopper and Wilderness Preservationist. Lost Pond Press. 2006.
1955: In 1955, the USGS performed a survey using standard (English) units [i.e. feet], identifying Santanoni Peak as 4607 feet tall making it the fourteenth tallest mountain in the Adirondacks.
1978: In 1978, the USGS performed a survey using metric units [i.e. meters], identifying Santanoni Peak as 4606 feet tall. It corrected the 1955 USGS standard unit survey measurement of Mount Haystack by one foot when converted and changed the height rank of the mountain from the fourteenth tallest to the thirteenth tallest mountain in the Adirondacks.
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