Mount Mckinley 83 Feet Shorter When Measured Using Radar Mapping System

The highest mountain in North America, Mount Mckinley, was known to be 22,320 feet high. But according to the recent mapping results, Mount McKinley is only 20,237 feet. “That’s 83 feet shorter than we thought,” Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell said in a statement. She made the announcement Wednesday at a symposium of the International Map Collectors’ Society in Anchorage.

The new height was measured last year with a radar mapping system deployed by the Statewide Digital Mapping Initiative in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey. The project will produce 11,000 new maps of the 49th state by 2016, according to the statement.

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