Mount Armour
Mount Armour | |
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Boundary Peak 175 | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 8,773 ft (2,674 m) |
Prominence | 2,310 ft (700 m) |
Coordinates | 59°54′23″N 138°43′04″W / 59.90639°N 138.71778°WCoordinates: 59°54′23″N 138°43′04″W / 59.90639°N 138.71778°W |
Geography | |
Location | Stikine Region, British Columbia Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska |
Topo map | NTS 114O15 |
Mount Armour, also named Boundary Peak 175, is a mountain in Alaska and British Columbia, located on the Canada–United States border, and part of the of the Saint Elias Mountains.[1] It is named after John Douglas Armour (1830–1903), Chief Justice of the High Court of Ontario, and Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, one of the original Canadian members of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal in 1903 and who was involved in settling the Alaska boundary dispute between the United States and Canada.[2]
See also[]
- List of Boundary Peaks of the Alaska-British Columbia/Yukon border
References[]
- ^ Mount Armour, British Columbia/Alaska
- ^ "Mount Armour". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2018-05-16.
Categories:
- Mountains of Alaska
- Two-thousanders of British Columbia
- Saint Elias Mountains
- Canada–United States border
- International mountains of North America
- Mountains of Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska
- British Columbia geography stubs
- Southeast Alaska geography stubs