Examples of 'mountain was named' in a sentence

Meaning of "mountain was named"

This phrase describes the process of giving a mountain a specific name. It usually occurs when explorers, geographers, or local communities discover or identify a mountain and decide to assign it a particular designation

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mountain was named
The mountain was named in honour of their club.
It is unknown why the mountain was named Penitentiary.
The mountain was named in commemoration of this event.
However the Freshfield Pass on the mountain was named after him.
The mountain was named by miners for its resemblance to an elephant.
According to legend, the mountain was named after a knight called " Ramm ".
The mountain was named after its amphitheatre bowl shape resembling the Colosseum of ancient Rome.
A Cherokee village near the mountain was named Itsa-ye, when Protestant missionaries arrived in the 1820s.
The mountain was named after the legend of the missing treasure.
A nearby mountain was named Mount Weeks in his honor.
The mountain was named after Crocker in honor of his conquest of that peak.
Ragged Mountain was named for its jagged peak.
The mountain was named in honor of the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer.
Cheyenne Mountain was named for the Cheyenne people.
Elk Mountain was named for the elk which once roamed there.

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Hence, the mountain was named " Bote Mountain.
The mountain was named in honor of Yale University.
Around 1905 the mountain was named after the Dutch Queen Wilhelmina.
The mountain was named after Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington who was Governor of Queensland.
The mountain was named in honor of Harvard University.
The mountain was named in honor of Princeton University.
The mountain was named after film director Stanley Kubrick.
The mountain was named by Bruno de Heceta for his patron saint.
The mountain was named in honor of John James Audubon.
The mountain was named Mount Sisu.
The mountain was named in honor of Ute Chief Shavano.
The mountain was named after the Archangel Gabriel.
The mountain was named Thandlät in the Southern Tutchone language.
The mountain was named for the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.
The mountain was named in honour of the Swiss geologist Gottlieb Samuel Studer.
The mountain was named after the Swiss geologist and explorer Louis Agassiz.
Crowders Mountain was named for Crowders Creek which originated near its base.
The mountain was named for a grotto-like cave with it.
This mountain was named after the nearby crater Vitruvius, located to the south-southeast.
Lime Kiln Mountain was named for a lime kiln which was active in the 19th century.
The mountain was named for the son of Lycaon, Maenalus.
The mountain was named for Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher.
The mountain was named in honor of Arnold Henry Guyot, a Swiss-American geologist.
The mountain was named for Aeolus, the Greek god of winds.
The mountain was named in honor of the Irish scientist and mountaineer, John Tyndall.
The mountain was named after the Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physician Christiaan Huygens.
The mountain was named for the Greek island Karpathos, home to the town Olympos.
The mountain was named for Alexandra, Princess of Wales.
The mountain was named after Thomas Carleton, New Brunswick 's first lieutenant governor.
The mountain was named after President James Garfield a year after Garfield 's death.
The mountain was named in honor of Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.
The mountain was named in 1919 by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey after nearby Gong Lake.
The mountain was named in 1949 by mountaineer Bradford Washburn for bush pilot Joseph Crosson.
Cambrai Mountain was named in commemoration of the Battle of Cambrai 1917.
The mountain was named by Norman Collie in 1898 after the Saskatchewan River.

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