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Name: Terry
Status: Student
Grade: Other
Location: CA
Country: United States
Date: September 2007
Question:
What is the minimum height of a mountain?


Replies:
Yes, apparently it is 2000 feet above mean sea level. In fact near Poteau, Oklahoma, there is what is billed as the World's Highest Hill, at an elevation of 1999 feet.

Its name is Cavanal Hill and you can Google it to see a picture. There is some debate as to the true height of the hill (mountain?),however.

I do know that, in the 1980's an oil company actually drilled a well on top of the "hill". It was a very deep dry hole.

Bob Avakian
Oklahoma State University - Okmulgee


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