[DOC] [TLE] El Capitan - Wikipedia [PAR] El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, located on the 
north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end. The granite monolith extends 
about 3,000 feet (900 m) from base to summit along its tallest face and is one of 
the world's favorite ... The formation was named "El Capitan" by the Mariposa 
Battalion when they... [DOC] [TLE] Josiah Whitney - Wikipedia [PAR] Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23, 1819  August 15, 1896) was an 
American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and 
chief of the California Geological Survey .... The Geological Survey of California (
186470); The Yosemite Book (1869). Later reprinted without photographs as 
The... [DOC] [TLE] Up and Down California in 1860-1864 - AAC Publications - Search ... [PAR] With the formation of the California Geological Survey in 1860, William H. ... 
Besides recording the scientific and other official data of the expedition, he found 
time to ... named Mt. Lyell, the highest point in what is now Yosemite National 
Park, and ... of the lack of supplies, they name it after their chief, Josiah Dwight 
Whitney. [DOC] [TLE] Place Names of the High Sierra (1926), "M," by Francis P. Farquhar [PAR] Place names of the High Sierra of California, including origin of the place names, 
... geology, William Maclure, one of the dominating peaks of the Sierra Nevada is 
very ... (Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, War Department, for 1879, ... the 
great number of butterflies (Mariposas), found by Moraga's expedition of 1806. [DOC] [TLE] Place Names of the High Sierra (1926), "K," by Francis P. Farquhar [PAR] Place names of the High Sierra of California, including origin of the place names, 
... As the collective name 'The Kaweah Peaks' is so often used, '. ... to right: Mount 
Abert (for Colonel John J. Abert, one time Chief of Topographical Engineers, ... 
and Thomas Keough, crossed Kearsarge Pass from Independence in July, 1864. [DOC] [TLE] Exploration of the Sierra Nevada, "The Whitney Survey and ... [PAR] Article about the history of the Sierra Nevada mountains of California and its ... In 
the next few years the remote canyons and the highest mountain peaks were to ... 
King volunteered to go an an expedition with the Survey to Lassen's Peak and ... 
as the highest of the Sierra and named in honor of their chief, Mount Whitney. [DOC] [TLE] Climbing Mount Whitney: Highest Mountain in California [PAR] Mount Whitney, a popular peak for climbing, is California's highest mountain and 
... for Josiah Whitney, California's State Geologist and survey chief, in July, 1864. 
... On the geological expedition that named the mountain in 1864, geologist ... 
The fishermen who found it looked mighty romantic on their return to Soda 
Springs. [DOC] [TLE] CGS History California Geological Survey - State Geologists [PAR] The mineral Traskite was named in his honor as the first state geologist. ... 
Whitney lead an expedition in 1864 to discover a peak, Mt. Whitney, later named 
in his honor. ... The scale was approximately 1:760,000 making it the largest 
geologic scale map at that ... Prior to that Jenkins served for 18 years as Chief 
Geologist. [DOC] [TLE] Whitney [PAR] "Josiah Dwight Whitney (1819-96), state geologist and chief of the California 
State ... The mountain was named in July 1864 by Clarence King and Richard 
Cotter of the ... of the highest mountain in the range, and christened it "
Fisherman's Peak. ... Goodyear and Belshaw took observations and discovered 
the real Mount... [DOC] [TLE] Names on the Range - College of Arts and Sciences - University of ... [PAR] But the California Geological Survey headed by Josiah D. Whitney certainly 
intensified and .... Their attempt to ascend the tallest of these peaks, Mt. Darwin (
13,830 ft/4,215 m), was thwarted, however, when they found their way blocked a 
few hundred feet ... Mt. Brewer (13,570

Question: California's highest peak, it was named for the geologist who was chief of the expedition that found it in 1864
Answer: Mount Whitney