Mount Wood (Yukon) facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Mount Wood |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 4,842 m (15,886 ft) |
| Prominence | 1,190 m (3,900 ft) |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Yukon, Canada |
| Parent range | Saint Elias Mountains |
| Topo map | NTS 115F/02 |
| Climbing | |
| 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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