The president of USA Barak Obama on Monday, on the 31-st of August, will officially return to the highest mountain of Northern America the name having been given to it by the indigenous population of Alaska. The mountain McKinley will obtain the name Denali after 40-year-old argument.
Obama intends to make a tour of retreating because of climatic changes glacier and meet with the citizens of distant Arctic communities.
The mountain peak was called in honour of the 25-th President of USA William McKinley in 1896, immediately after his landslide. However, the local citizens of Alaska used to call the mountain as Denali that means «The Greatest».
Since 1975, the authorities of the state became calling the mountain Denali officially. All along Alaska convinced the federal government to do the same.
From 1799 to 1867 this peak which was called as The Great Mountain during the Russian colonization of Alaska was the highest in Russian Federation. On the 30-th of March, 1867, Alaska was sold to USA. The first time when the peak was put on the map by Ferdinand von Wrangell in 1839.
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