Basket Dome is a granite dome in Yosemite National Park, United States.
Basket Dome | |
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![]() Basket Dome to the right of North Dome | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 7,612 ft (2,320 m) NGVD 29[1] |
Prominence | 212 ft (65 m)[1] |
Coordinates | 37°45′49″N 119°33′03″W[2] |
Geography | |
![]() ![]() Basket Dome ![]() ![]() Basket Dome | |
Location | Mariposa County, California, U.S. |
Parent range | Sierra Nevada |
Topo map | USGS Yosemite Falls |
Basket Dome was named from a Native American legend involving a woman carrying a basket, who was turned by anger into stone, forming the dome.[3]
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