Gold Mountain

Gold Mountain and similar may mean:

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Gold Mountain (Chinese name for part of North America)

Gold Mountain (Chinese: 金山; pinyin: jīn shān; Wade–Giles: chin¹ shan¹; Jyutping: gam1 saan1, "Gam Saan" in Cantonese, often rendered in English as Gum Shan or Gumshan) is a commonly used nickname for San Francisco, California, and historically used broadly by Chinese to refer to western regions of North America, including British Columbia, Canada. After gold was found in the Sierra Nevada in 1848, thousands of Chinese from Toisan in Guangdong, began to travel to the West in search of gold and riches during the California Gold Rush.

Chinese people historically referred to California and British Columbia as Gold Mountain, as evidenced by maps and returned Overseas Chinese. However, because gold was also discovered in Australia (Melbourne was referred to as "New Gold Mountain" (新金山), California was more exclusively known as Old Gold Mountain (Chinese: 舊金山; pinyin: jiù jīn shān; Wade–Giles: chiu⁴ chin¹ shan¹; Jyutping: gau6 gam1 saan1); although "Old Gold Mountain" now specifically refers to San Francisco.

Gold Mountain (Washington)

Gold Mountain is a 1,761-foot (537 m) summit in the Blue Hills on the Kitsap Peninsula of Washington state, in the United States' Pacific Northwest. It is the highest point on the Kitsap Peninsula and the highest point in Kitsap County, Washington, and nearby 1,639-foot (500 m) Green Mountain is the second-highest point.

The mountain lies partly on private land, partly in the City of Bremerton watershed inaccessible to the general public, and partly in the adjacent 6,000-acre (2,400 ha) Green Mountain State Forest which is open to hikers, horses, and on- and off-road vehicles.

Most of the eastern half of Gold Mountain is in the city watershed, with the Union River reservoir at the foot. The summit itself is in a quarter quarter section exclave of the state forest, connected at a corner. The summit is about 200 meters (660 ft) outside the city limits, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of downtown Bremerton.

Radio and television transmitters

The mountain summit has an antenna farm including transmitters for Kitsap Peninsula area emergency services, as well as Seattle television and radio stations KCPQ (Fox 13),KTBW and KYFQ. Since 1981, the Western Washington Repeater Association has operated an amateur radio repeater, call sign WW7RA, on the site, with coverage throughout the Puget Sound region from Centralia to Bellingham.