> > > Aren't they(McKinley and Denali) mountains, also?
> >
> > They? You mean it. Denali is the real name, McKinley the Westernized name.
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> Just to set the record straight, it was Denali for centuries. But when the US bought Alaska from Russia, the politicans started naming stuff after
> people they wanted to honor. (Honor in this case means "repay favor.") This went on for some time and one of those honored people was an obscure US president named McKenley. He never went to Alaska and he never saw the mountain they named for him. My guess is that he didn't give a hoot anyway. After Alaska became a state in 1959, the citizens started the slow process of replacing the original names to geographic features and the correct name of Denali was one of them. So far, no objection from McKenley, who is dead. The same thing is happening in Hawaii where native names are slowly being restored. Frankly, I think Denali is a majestic name for a majestic mountain. I couldn't call it anything else.
> Howard

I knew I wasn't spelling it right.
It's appropriate, too. I've heard numerous translations, but Denali means something along the lines of The Great One or The Tall One.