Mount Balfour
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 Mount Balfour
Location in Alberta
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| 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 |
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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 49th highest peak in Alberta and the 63rd highest in British Columbia; 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
- Mountains of Alberta
- Mountains of British Columbia
- List of peaks on the British Columbia–Alberta border
References
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