Mount Balfour

Mount Balfour
Mount Balfour
Location in Alberta
Highest point
Elevation 3,284 m (10,774 ft) [1]
Prominence 934 m (3,064 ft) [2]
Coordinates 51°33′55″N 116°27′58″W / 51.56528°N 116.46611°W / 51.56528; -116.46611Coordinates: 51°33′55″N 116°27′58″W / 51.56528°N 116.46611°W / 51.56528; -116.46611 [3]
Geography
Location Alberta / British Columbia, Canada
Parent range Waputik Range
Topo map NTS 82N/09
Climbing
First ascent 1898 C.L. Noyes, C.S. Thompson, G.M. Weed; Appalachian Mountain Club

Mount Balfour is a mountain located on the Continental Divide, part of the border between British Columbia and Alberta, in the Waputik Range in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies.[1][2]It is the 71th highest peak in Alberta[4] and the 113th highest in British Columbia[5]; it is also the 52nd most prominence in Alberta.

The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after Professor John Hutton Balfour, a Scottish botanist and instructor at the University of Edinburgh where Hector had studied.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Mount Balfour". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
  2. 1 2 "Mount Balfour". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2009-02-21.
  3. 1 2 "Mount Balfour". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2013-06-15.
  4. ↑ Peaks in Alberta by height
  5. ↑ list of peaks in BC


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