1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Sierra Nevada (California)

SIERRA NEVADA (Span. for “snowy range”), a mountain range, about 430 m. long, in the eastern part of California, containing Mt Whitney (14,502 ft.), the highest point in the United States, excluding Alaska. (See California.)

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