Mount McKinley, the tallest of North America’s mountains, is officially being renamed Denali, the White House said Sunday, August 30, on the eve of US President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Alaska. The mountain had been named in 1896 by a gold prospector after US president William McKinley, who was at that time still running for president, but local authorities had worked on the change for years, restoring an Alaska Native name with deep cultural significance. Obama will spend three days in Alaska from Monday and become the first sitting US president to visit the Alaskan Arctic, the setting of the most spectacular impacts of climate change.
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