Mount Baker
Sign in to saveAlso known as Koma Kulshan, Kulshan, Qwú’mə Kwəlshéːn, Kw’eq Smaenit, Kwelshán, Mt. Baker
stratovolcano in Washington State, United States
Key facts
- Elevation
- 10,786 ft (3,288 m) NAVD 88
- Prominence
- 8,812 ft (2,686 m)
- Isolation
- 211.66 km (131.52 mi)
- Listing
- North America prominent peak 28th North America isolated peaks 98th Cascade volcanoes
- Etymology
- Joseph Baker
- Native name
- Kweq' Smánit ( Nooksack ) təqʷubəʔ ( Lushootseed ) Kwelshan ( Lummi ) Kwelxá:lxw ( Halkomelem ) kʷəlhéləxʷ ( Thompson )
- Location
- Whatcom County , Washington State , U.S.
- Parent range
- Cascade Range
- Topo map
- USGS Mount Baker
- Formed by
- Subduction zone volcanism
- Rock age
- Less than 140,000 years
- Mountain type
- Stratovolcano
- Volcanic arc
- Cascade Volcanic Arc
- Last eruption
- 7 September to 27 November 1880
- First ascent
- 1868 by Edmund Coleman, John Tennant, Thomas Stratton and David Ogilvy
- Easiest route
- snow (ice) climb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stratovolcano
- Part of
- North Cascades
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Whatcom County
- Elevation
- 3286
- Material used
- andesite
- Image
- Mount Baker 22101.JPG
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- volcano observatory
- Cascades Volcano Observatory
- different from
- Mount Baker
- mountain range
- Skagit Range
- Commons category
- Mount Baker
- Commons gallery
- Mount Baker
- topographic prominence
- 2686
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- topographic isolation
- 211.66
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Encyclopedic overview
The east side of Mount Baker in 2001. Sherman Crater is the deep depression south of the summit.
Mount Baker, also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781-foot (3,286 m) active glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount St. Helens. About 30 miles (48 km) due east of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom County, Mount Baker is the youngest volcano in the Mount Baker volcanic field. While volcanism has persisted here for some 1.5 million years, the current volcanic cone is likely no more than 140,000 years old, and possibly no older than 80–90,000 years. Older volcanic edifices have mostly eroded away due to glaciation.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Baker” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.