Mount Rainier has a topographic prominence of 13,210 ft (4,026 m), which is greater than that of K2, the world's second-tallest mountain, at 13,189 ft (4,020 m). Mount Rainier is ranked third of the 128 ultra-prominent mountain peaks of the United States. This peak is located just east of Eatonville and just southeast of Tacoma and Seattle. Mount Rainier is the tallest mountain in Washington and the Cascade Range. After the 2015 restoration of the original name Denali from Mount McKinley in Alaska, debate over Mount Rainier's name intensified. Despite this, there was still a movement to change the mountain's name to Tacoma and Congress was still considering a resolution to change the name as late as 1924. Following this in 1897, the Pacific Forest Reserve became the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, and the national park was established three years later. In 1890, the United States Board on Geographic Names declared that the mountain would be known as Rainier. Tacoma was preferred in the nearby city of Tacoma. Although Rainier had been considered the official name of the mountain, Theodore Winthrop, in his posthumously published 1862 travel book The Canoe and the Saddle, referred to the mountain as Tacoma and for a time, both names were used interchangeably, although Mt. The map of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804–1806 refers to it as "Mt. The current name was given by George Vancouver, who named it in honor of his friend, Rear Admiral Peter Rainier. Other names originally used include Tahoma, Tacobeh, and Pooskaus. Another hypothesis is that Tacoma means "larger than Mount Baker" in Lushootseed: Ta 'larger', plus Koma ( Kulshan), (Mount Baker). The linguist William Bright gives the origin as təqʷúbə 'snow-covered mountain'. One hypothesis of the word origin is təqʷubəʔ 'mother of waters' in the Lushootseed language spoken by the Puyallup people. Mount Rainier was first known by the local Salishan speakers as Talol, Tacoma, or Tahoma.
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