Rainier

• Location: Washington/USA

A mountain named by Captain George Vancouver^† who surveyed this part of the west coast of North America in 1792, after Rear Admiral Peter Rainier (1742–1808). Rainier, later a vice admiral and Vancouver's mentor in the British Royal Navy, never saw the mountain. There is a city with this name in Oregon, also named after the admiral. The Native American name is Tacoma 'mountain'.

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Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names. Copyright © John Everett-Heath 2005. All rights reserved.

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