This is Mt. Shasta in northern California. It is an 'ultra-prominent peak,' meaning that its prominence rises more than 10,000 feet (3,048 meters above its immediate surroundings. Meaning that it is visible from vast distances - from hundreds of miles away in some spots.Although the territory containing Mt. Shasta was claimed by Spain as early as the 1530's, there are no references to the peak in any Spanish or Mexican sources until possibly 1817, in the diary of a Spaniard named Narciso Durán:https://www.siskiyous.edu/library/shasta/documents/AB_Ch5.pdfHowever, it's not entirely clear that this even refers to Shasta, since the expedition passed quite far from the mountain and did not bother to investigate further. None of the peaks sighted on this expedition were given names by the Spaniards. That task fell to western (English/Canadian/American) trappers and explorers in the following decades. How did this happen? Why are Spaniards and their Mexican successors so incurious about the lands to which they laid claim? How do you simply not find one of the biggest and most prominent peaks on the entire North American continent for hundreds of years while it sits there in 'your' land?
The Spaniards literally claimed half the earth lol, they couldn't explore all of it
There weren't very many spaniards living in North America. The British focused on settling their colonial possessions, but the Spanish were more interested in extracting loot and simply claiming land for prestige. As they moved north through Mexico all they encountered were seemingly endless deserts so they naturally were discouraged from further expeditions in force, and focused on exploiting the territories they already had in hand.
San Francisco Bay was discovered by the Englishman Francis Drake in 1571, despite Spanish controlling California for almost a 100 years.
>>18554965Fake news
>>18554846Not true at all. Spain settled what they could, but the territory was too extense. The english controlled a miserable fraction of what the spanish did, and the only thing they did was fill it with nigger slaves and grow cotton or whatever.
>>18554812>why did colonials not name this mountainthere might be a first nations name for it. but ultimately it is european culture to want prominent geographic features with their name on it. history is written by the victors
>>18555126Are you retarded or just baiting? Many places that were formally held by Europeans in the Americas retain their native name or some phonetic spelling of it in Spanish. Tejas for example is a native word.
>>18555146>Many places that were formally held by Europeans in the Americas retain their native namehow magnanimous. most places in the world do not have their first nations words
>>18554812Spain respected the natives too much to rename the geography. Based.
