Mount Rainier

The board's Peter Regnier was his grandfather's name, not his. Daniel Regnier was a Huguenot refugee settled in Kent, and by the admiral's generation the family wrote Rainier. Vancouver, sighting the round snowy mountain on May 8, 1792, wrote that he named it after his friend Rear Admiral Rainier. The admiral had been badly wounded in 1778 taking an American privateer during the Revolution, went on to command the Royal Navy's East Indies station, and never came near the peak. The board's other claims, from the glacier count to the lost summit, are figures of its day.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge — 24 mi
  A delta given back to the tide in 2009, and named for the Nisqually fisherman who was arrested more than fifty times for fishing his own river.