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The Whipple Mountains (Mojave: Avii Kur'utat;[2] Chemehuevi: Wiyaatuʷa̱[3]) are located in eastern San Bernardino County, California. They are directly west of the Colorado River, Parker Dam, and Lake Havasu; south of Needles, California; north of Parker, Arizona and Vidal, California; and northeast of Vidal Junction, California.
The Whipple mountain massif at photo bottom southwest of the Colorado River.
The mountain forms a major direction change of the north-south Colorado River as it changes directions to southeast, then southwest around the eastern perimeter of the Whipple Mountains. The highest point of the mountains, and the Whipple Mountains Wilderness is Whipple Mountain at 4,131 feet (1,259 m). The western portion of the mountain range has pale green formations, differing from the eastern, steeply carved and striking brick-red volcanics. Landforms are diverse and range from valley floors and washes to steep-walled canyons, domed peaks, natural bridges, and eroded spires.[4]
The mountains were named after Amiel Weeks Whipple, a lieutenant in the US Army who surveyed the region in the 1840s, and later died in Chancellorsville in the Civil War.[5]
^"Whipple Mountains". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
^Munro, P et al. A Mojave Dictionary Los Angeles: UCLA, 1992
^Laird, Carobeth. Mirror and pattern Banning: Malki Museum Press, 1984
^U.S. Bureau of Land Management website Whipple Mountains Wilderness. Retrieved 2011-01-27
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