Whale Peak
Indianhead

Fri, Nov 23, 2007
  Etymology
Whale Peak
Story Maps: 1 2 Profiles: 1 2
Indianhead later climbed Wed, Feb 17, 2010

Whale Peak (5,349 ft.)

Named by the USGS, according to Anza Borrego State Park Ranger Alfred Welcome, for the imagined similarity of the shape of this mountain to the profile of a whale.

The Gray Whale was designated as the official state Marine Mammal of California (1975).

This peak is the high point of the Vallecito Mountains, a Penninsular Range.

Name first appears on AMS Borego quad (1942).

Peak was on the original 1946 HPS Peak List.

- HPS Summit Signatures


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