(937 ft.)
| Named by Sierra Club in 1912
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Also Seamount
"The highest elevation in San Francisco Co. had been known as Blue Mountain
since Beechey placed it on a map in 1827. In 1912 it was named after the American
astronomer and geodesist George Davidson (1825-1911). The change was made at the
instigation of the Sierra Club, and the ceremony of christening was performed by
Davidson's friend and associate Alexander McAdie. On some
maps the elevation is labeled San Miguel Hills.
Davidson Seamount (75 miles west of Point Piedras Blancas) was discovered in 1932
by the Coast Survey ship Guide and was named for Davidson in 1938: 'The
generic term "seamount" is here used for the first time, and is applied to
submarine elevations of mountain form whose character and depth are such that the
existing terms bank, shoal, pinnacle, etc., are not appropriate' (BGN, 1938)."
- Erwin Gudde, California Place Names
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