| Shiva Temple | |
|---|---|
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Shiva_Temple_GC.jpg) South aspect, from South Rim | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 7,646 ft (2,331 m)[1][2] |
| Prominence | 1,351 ft (412 m)[1] |
| Parent peak | Dragon Head (7,765 ft)[3] |
| Isolation | 2.65 mi (4.26 km)[3] |
| Coordinates | 36°10′04″N 112°09′49″W / 36.1678508°N 112.1635251°W[4] |
| Geography | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:USA_Arizona_relief_location_map.svg)  Shiva Temple Location in Arizona &sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Usa_edcp_relief_location_map.png) Shiva Temple Shiva Temple (the United States) | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Arizona |
| County | Coconino |
| Protected area | Grand Canyon National Park |
| Parent range | Kaibab Plateau[1] Colorado Plateau |
| Topo map | USGS Shiva Temple |
| Geology | |
| Rock type | Kaibab Limestone Coconino Sandstone |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | Puebloans[5] |
| Easiest route | class 4 climbing[3] |
Shiva Temple is a 7,646-foot-elevation (2,331-meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, US.[4] It is situated six miles north of Hopi Point overlook of the canyon's South Rim, about 2.5 miles southwest of North Rim's Tiyo Point, and two miles northwest of Isis Temple, where it towers 5,200 feet (1,600 meters) above the Colorado River. Shiva Temple is named for Shiva, the Hindu deity, destroyer of the universe. This name was applied by Clarence Dutton who began the tradition of naming geographical features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities.[6] Dutton believed Shiva Temple was the largest, grandest, and most majestic of the Grand Canyon buttes, with a broad, level, forested top.[6] This mountain's name was officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[4]
In 1937, the American Museum of Natural History led explorations to Shiva Temple and Wotans Throne in the belief that these buttes, isolated for 100,000 years from the plateau, may have evolved new species. The scientists discovered Ancestral Puebloan dwellings, deer antlers, and an empty Kodak film box that had been left behind a month earlier by pioneer Emery Kolb, his daughter Edith, Ruth Stephens Baker, Gordon Berger, and Ralph White, but no new species.[7][8][9]
According to the Köppen climate classification system, Shiva Temple has a Cold semi-arid climate.[10]
- ^ a b c "Shiva Temple, Arizona". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ USGS map, Shiva Temple quadrangle
- ^ a b c "Shiva Temple – 7,646' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved December 22, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Shiva Temple". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
- ^ Boye Lafayette De Mente, The Grand Canyon Answer Book! – Everything You Might Want to Know About the Grand Canyon and Then Some!, 2009, Cultural-Insight Books, ISBN 9780914778097, page 45.
- ^ a b Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 150.
- ^ Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 151.
- ^ May 29, 1994, Ruth Stephens Baker oral history interview with Karen Underhill, Grand Canyon National Park Museum Collection
- ^ Leavengood, Betty (October 2006). "Ruth Stephens Baker" (PDF). The O'l Pioneer: Quarterly Magazine of the Grand Canyon Historical Society. 17 (4): 3–4.
- ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606.