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Mount Washington (New Hampshire)
Mount Washington, called Agiocochook by some Native American tribes, is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at and the most prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River.
The mountain is famous for dangerously erratic weather. On the afternoon of April 12, 1934, the Mount Washington Observatory recorded a windspeed of at the summit, the world record for most of the 20th century. (A new wind speed record was discovered in 2009: on April 10, 1996, Tropical Cyclone Olivia had created a wind gust of 254 mph at Barrow Island off the coast of Western Australia.)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Was World Wind Speed Record Challenged in 1996? )〕
The mountain is located in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, in the township of Sargent's Purchase, Coös County, New Hampshire. While nearly the whole mountain is in the White Mountain National Forest, an area of surrounding and including the summit is occupied by Mount Washington State Park.
==Names==
Before European settlers arrived, the mountain was known as ''Kodaak Wadjo'' ("the top is so hidden" or "summit of the highest mountain") or ''Agiochook'' or ''Agiocochook'' ("the place of the Great Spirit" or "the place of the Concealed One").〔''The Indian Heritage of New Hampshire and Northern New England'' (ed. Thaddeus Piotrowski), McFarland & Company: 2002, p. 182.〕 (The Algonquians called it ''Waumbik'', "white rocks").〔
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