Alaska Gazetteer
Mount Vancouver is a physical feature (summit) in Yakutat Borough.
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| Feature Name: | Mount Vancouver |
| Category: | Alaska physical, cultural and historic features |
| Feature Type: | Physical |
| Class: | Summit |
| Description: | mountain, 15,700 ft., on the Alaska-Canada boundary, 26 mi. E of Mount Augusta and 55 mi. N of Yakutat, St. Elias Mts. |
| History: | Named by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1874, for Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), 1757-98, British navigator who explored the SE coast of Alaska in 1792-94. The name was first published in the 1881 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) Coast Pilot (p. 211). It was first climbed July 5, 1949 (Farquhar, 1959, p. 232). |
| Borough: | Yakutat Borough |
| Latitude: | 60.3344955444 |
| Longitude: | -139.692367554 |
Variant (Nonofficial) Names for Mount Vancouver: Mount Vancouver.
Note that you do not have the right to enter private property without the owner's permission. You do have a right to access goverment property that is open to the general public. The GNIS Feature Detail Report for Mount Vancouver does not include property ownership information.
