This is a list of Boundary Peaks of the Alaska–British Columbia border, including those on the Alaska–Yukon border, being those peaks named as border-points of the Canada–United States border as a result of the Alaska Boundary Settlement of 1903 and associated later surveys.
Brass or concrete survey markers were placed on the summits of the "accessible" peaks designated in the treaty, positioned such that from any one marker a surveyor could see both the previous and the next markers along the boundary line. This was done so that if ever a question arose about jurisdiction anywhere along the border, a determination could be made by sighting between two markers.[1]
Other peaks named in the treaty but not in the numbered-peak series include T Mountain, in the Stikine Icecap area (57.2114°N -132.2483°W). Other peaks on the boundary but not named in the treaty include an unnumbered Boundary Peak in the Icefield Ranges immediately north of the Alsek River (59.8425°N -138.6914°W) and Mount Vern Ritchie, to the north of there. Mountain passes on the boundary are few, the most important being Grand Pacific, Chilkat, Chilkoot and White Passes.
Much of Alaska is included in one of the state's boroughs, and the remainder of the state is divided into census areas. In the third column, boroughs are marked with daggers† and census areas are marked with asterisks*.
Name | Alternate Name(s) | Borough/ Census Area | data-sort-type="number" | Elev. | Coordinates | USGS GNIS[2] | BCGNIS | CGNDB | Other sites | Comments | |
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Boundary Peak 8 | Mount Welker | Ketchikan Gateway† | 5151feet[3] | 56.0083°N -130.0036°W | [4] | AK-BC; named "After Captain Philip A. Welker, retired, who bore a distinguished part in the survey of Alaska and its boundary" | |||||
Boundary Peak 15 | Mount Bayard, originally Mount Lindeborg | Ketchikan Gateway† | 6558feet[5] | 56.1228°N -130.1039°W | [6] | AK-BC; named after Thomas F. Bayard (1828–1898), U.S. statesman and diplomat; original name after Dan Lindeborg, founder of Hyder, Alaska; Mt Lindeborg now refers to another summit in the vicinity. | |||||
Boundary Peak 16 | Mount Jefferson Coolidge | Ketchikan Gateway† | 6319feet | 56.0969°N -130.2458°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 17 | Mount Upshur | Ketchikan Gateway† | 6732feet | 56.1292°N -130.3489°W | [7] | AK-BC; named after Abel P. Upshur (1790–1844), US politician and jurist | |||||
Boundary Peak 18 | Mount John Jay | Ketchikan Gateway† | 6896feet | 56.1419°N -130.4253°W | AK-BC; named after John Jay (1745–1820), U.S. statesman and jurist | ||||||
Boundary Peak 23 | Mount Willibert | Ketchikan Gateway† | 7041feet[8] | 56.2433°N -130.4678°W | [9] | AK-BC; named after Willibert Simpson, member of staff of Canadian section of the International Boundary Commission, 1893–95 | |||||
Boundary Peak 24 | Mount Blaine | Ketchikan Gateway† | 5873feet | 56.2475°N -130.5°W | AK-BC; named after James Gillespie Blaine (1830–93), American orator and statesman | ||||||
Boundary Peak 27 | Mount Middleton | Ketchikan Gateway† | 5469feet[10] | 56.2694°N -130.6147°W | [11] | AK-BC; named after Henry Middleton (1771–1846), United States Minister to Russia, 1820–1830; negotiated the treaty of 1824 with Russia | |||||
Boundary Peak 40 | Mount Stoeckl | Ketchikan Gateway† | 5997feet[12] | 56.3672°N -130.7817°W | [13] | AK-BC; named after Russian Privy Councillor Baron Edward de Stoeckl, Russian Minister to the U.S., who signed the convention ceding Alaska to the United States of America on 30 March 1867. | |||||
Boundary Peak 41 | Mosheim Dome | Ketchikan Gateway† | 6417feet[14] | 56.3742°N -130.8164°W | [15] | AK-BC; named after Adolph Mosheim, an assistant surveyor with the United States party to the boundary survey in this area, 1905 | |||||
Boundary Peak 47 | Mount Lewis Cass | Ketchikan Gateway† | 6030feet[16] | 56.4117°N -131.0853°W | [17] | AK-BC; named after Lewis Cass (1782–1866), U. S. soldier and statesman | |||||
Boundary Peak 48 | Mount Pounder | Petersburg† | 6512feet[18] | 56.4497°N -131.1736°W | [19] | AK-BC; named after John A. Pounder, surveyor with the International Boundary Commission, 1909 | |||||
Boundary Peak 53 | Mount Fawcett | Wrangell† | 6214feet[20] | 56.5531°N -131.4686°W | [21] | AK-BC; named after Thomas Fawcett, DTS, engineer with the Canadian section of the International Boundary Commission, 1911–20 | |||||
Boundary Peak 54 | Mount Whipple | Wrangell† | 5233feet[22] | 56.6128°N -131.5789°W | [23] | AK-BC | |||||
Boundary Peak 62 | Mount Cote | Wrangell† | 4377feet[24] | 56.7539°N -131.8989°W | [25] | AK-BC; named after Jean Leon Côté (1867–1924), Departmental Land Surveyor who worked on preliminary boundary surveys in the 1890s; later Alberta MLA and member of the Senate of Canada, 1924. Also commemorated by Mount Côté on the BC–Alberta boundary in the Canadian Rockies | |||||
Boundary Peak 66 | Elbow Mountain | Wrangell† | 4245feet[26] | 56.7031°N -131.8608°W | [27] | AK-BC | |||||
Boundary Peak 67 | Mount Gallatin | Wrangell† | 5098feet[28] | 56.7544°N -131.9014°W | [29] | AK-BC; named after Albert Gallatin, one of the US commissioners who negotiated the Treaty of Ghent | |||||
Boundary Peak 68 | Mount Talbot | Wrangell† | 4452feet[30] | 56.8061°N -131.8733°W | [31] | AK-BC; Captain A.C. Talbot, international boundary surveyor, 1893 and 1895 | |||||
Boundary Peak 69 | Wrangell† | 6913feet | 56.8742°N -132.1231°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 70 | Kates Needle | Petersburg† | 10016feet[32] | 57.045°N -132.0444°W | [33] | AK-BC | |||||
Boundary Peak 71 | Devils Thumb | Petersburg† | 8560feet | 57.0914°N -132.3722°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 72 | Petersburg† | 7533feet | 57.2122°N -132.2494°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 73 | Hoonah-Angoon* | 7782feet | 57.3497°N -132.3686°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 74 | Hoonah-Angoon* | 6289feet | 57.4969°N -132.5556°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 75 | Hoonah-Angoon* | 7487feet | 57.6169°N -132.6597°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 76 | Hoonah-Angoon* | 7073feet | 57.6961°N -132.7494°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 77 | Hoonah-Angoon* | 6611feet | 57.8392°N -132.8708°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 78 | Mount Hill | Hoonah-Angoon* | 6440feet | 58.0003°N -133.0678°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 79 | Juneau† | 5279feet | 58.1539°N -133.1736°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 83 | Juneau† | 5374feet | 58.2272°N -133.27°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 84 | Mount Brundage | Juneau† | 5902feet | 58.2775°N -133.3453°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 85 | Juneau† | 6398feet | 58.3883°N -133.4611°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 86 | Mount Ogden | Juneau† | 7126feet | 58.4258°N -133.3775°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 93 | Devils Paw | Juneau† | 8045feet | 58.7294°N -133.8381°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 95 | Mount Ogilvie | Juneau† | 7218feet | 58.8611°N -134.2569°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 96 | Juneau† | 7162feet | 58.9017°N -134.3081°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 97 | Mount Bressler | Juneau† | 7503feet | 58.9244°N -134.3333°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 98 | Mount Nesselrode | Haines† | 7244feet | 58.9625°N -134.3133°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 99 | Haines† | 7224feet | 58.9797°N -134.4064°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 100 | Haines† | 6509feet | 59.0389°N -134.3792°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 101 | Haines† | 7536feet | 59.0894°N -134.4464°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 102 | Haines† | 7237feet | 59.1319°N -134.4831°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 103 | Haines† | 6526feet | 59.1314°N -134.5625°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 104 | Mount Pullen | Haines† | 5663feet | 59.1925°N -134.6775°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 105 | Mount Canning | Haines† | 5784feet | 59.2497°N -134.7011°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 106 | Haines† | 6155feet | 59.2814°N -134.9575°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 107 | Mount Bagot | Haines/Skagway | 7155feet | 59.3483°N -135.0247°W | AK-BC; named after Charles Bagot | ||||||
Boundary Peak 108 | Haines† | 6742feet | 59.3875°N -134.9892°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 109 | Skagway† | 6069feet | 59.4281°N -135.1003°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 111 | Skagway† | 5800feet | 59.475°N -135.0261°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 144 | Haines† | 4049feet | 59.465°N -136.3067°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 150 | Haines† | 4885feet | 59.4658°N -136.4747°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 151 | Haines† | 6696feet | 59.3769°N -136.4758°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 154 | Haines† | 5292feet | 59.2844°N -136.4667°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 155 | Haines† | 5554feet | 59.275°N -136.4942°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 156 | Mount Harris | Haines† | 5289feet | 59.2625°N -136.4878°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 157 | Hoonah-Angoon* | 5584feet | 59.1664°N -136.5828°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 158 | Hoonah-Angoon* | 5430feet | 59.1603°N -136.8275°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 159 | Hoonah-Angoon* | 5761feet | 59.1361°N -136.8739°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 160 | Mount Barnard | Hoonah-Angoon* | 8173feet[34] | 59.1011°N -136.9678°W | [35] | AK-BC | |||||
Boundary Peak 161 | Mount Forde | Hoonah-Angoon* | 6883feet | 59.0322°N -137.1758°W | [36] | AK-BC | |||||
Boundary Peak 162 | Mount Turner | Hoonah-Angoon* | 8661feet | 59°N -137.2797°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 163 | Mount Quincy Adams | Hoonah-Angoon* | 13146feet | 58.9086°N -137.4519°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 164 | Mount Fairweather | Yakutat† | 15157feet | 58.9069°N -137.5269°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 165 | Mount Root | Yakutat† | 11657feet | 58.9864°N -137.5019°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 166 | Mount Lodge | Yakutat† | 10272feet | 59.1069°N -137.5414°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 167 | Mount Hay | Yakutat† | 8284feet | 59.2444°N -137.6064°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 172 | Mount Herbert | Yakutat† | 5128feet | 59.7681°N -138.6358°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 173 | Yakutat† | 5118feet | 59.8069°N -138.6806°W | AK-BC | |||||||
Boundary Peak 174 | Mount Duff | Yakutat† | 6470feet | 59.905°N -138.7214°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 175 | Mount Armour | Yakutat† | 6834feet | 59.9064°N -138.7178°W | AK-BC; 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; succeeded after his death by A.B.Aylesworth (cf. Mount Aylesworth) | ||||||
Boundary Peak 176 | Mount Aylesworth | Yakutat† | 7926feet | 59.9247°N -138.7961°W | AK-BC; named after Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth (1854–1952), Canadian constitutional lawyer and member of Alaskan Boundary Tribunal, 1903, succeeding J.D. Armour after his death; Canadian Minister of justice, 1906–11 and later Canadian Senator. | ||||||
Boundary Peak 177 | Mount Jetté | Yakutat† | 7966feet | 59.9944°N -139.0528°W | AK-BC | ||||||
Boundary Peak 178 | Mount Seattle | Yakutat† | 9482feet | 60.0861°N -139.1958°W | AK-YT | ||||||
Boundary Peak 179 | Mount Hubbard | Yakutat† | 14872feet | 60.3186°N -139.0714°W | AK-YT | ||||||
Boundary Peak 180 | Mount Alverstone | Yakutat† | 13904feet | 60.3503°N -139.0772°W | AK-YT | ||||||
Boundary Peak 181 | Mount Vancouver-Good Neighbor Peak | Yakutat† | 15013feet | 60.3292°N -139.6906°W | AK-YT | ||||||
Boundary Peak 182 | Mount Cook | Yakutat† | 12857feet | 60.1775°N -139.9819°W | AK-YT | ||||||
Boundary Peak 183 | Mount Augusta | Yakutat† | 12857feet | 60.3031°N -140.4558°W | AK-YT; named in 1891 by I.C. Russell of the USGS in honor of his wife Augusta Olmstead Russell | ||||||
Boundary Peak 184 | Yakutat† | 4665feet | 60.2169°N -140.5242°W | AK-YT | |||||||
Boundary Peak 185 | Yakutat† | 9777feet | 60.2594°N -140.7756°W | AK-YT | |||||||
Boundary Peak 186 | Mount Saint Elias | Yakutat† | 18035feet | 60.2933°N -140.9294°W | AK-YT | ||||||
Boundary Peak 187 | Yakutat† | 13071feet | 60.3075°N -140.9969°W | AK-YT; this is the westernmost point in Canada |