Mount Wood (Yukon) Explained

Mount Wood
Elevation M:4842
Prominence M:1190
Prominence Ref:[1]
Location:Yukon, Canada
Range:Saint Elias Mountains
Coordinates:61.2328°N -140.5125°W
Coordinates Ref:[2]
First Ascent:1941 by Walter Wood, Anderson Blakewell and Albert Jackman
Easiest Route:glacier/snow/ice climb

Mount Wood (sometimes referred to as Wood Peak) is the seventh-highest mountain in Canada and is located in Kluane National Park and Reserve. In 1900 it was named by the surveyor James J. McArthur (1856–1925) after Zachary Taylor Wood (d.1915), a North-West Mounted Police inspector in Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush. He was later the commissioner of the NWMP.

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Notes and References

  1. 236. Mount Wood. 2006-05-19.
  2. Web site: Mount Wood. Natural Resources Canada. Geographical Names of Canada. 2006-05-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20110608141447/http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/v9/sima_unique_v9?english%3FKAHJW%3FC. 2011-06-08. dead.