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Abiathar Peak
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January 2010
Highest point
Elevation 10,928 ft (3,331 m)
Prominence 848 ft (258 m)
Geography
Abiathar Peak is located in Wyoming
Abiathar Peak
Abiathar Peak
Location in Wyoming
Location Yellowstone National Park,
Park County, Wyoming, US
Parent range Absaroka Range
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Abiathar Peak el. 10,928 feet (3,331 m) is a mountain peak in the northeastern section of Yellowstone National Park of Absaroka Range. The peak was named by members of the 1885 Hague Geological Survey to honor Charles Abiathar White, a geologist and paleontologist who had participated in early western geological surveys. White never visited Yellowstone.

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