Mount Harper

Mount Harper
Highest point
Elevation 1,845 m (6,053 ft)
Prominence 580 m (1,900 ft)
Coordinates 64°40′30.0″N 139°52′19.2″W / 64.675000°N 139.872000°W / 64.675000; -139.872000
Geography
Location Yukon, Canada
Parent range Ogilvie Mountains
Topo map NTS 116B/12
Geology
Age of rock Late Proterozoic

Mount Harper is a deeply eroded Late Proterozoic volcanic complex located 71 km (44 mi) north of Dawson City and 33 km (21 mi) west of Mount Gibben. Mount Harper is in the Ogilvie Mountains and is the 1,200 m (3,900 ft) thick remnant of a subaqueous-to-emergent basaltic shield volcano capped by small rhyodacitic and andesitic lava flows. It oversteps the Harper Fault.

In 1888, William Olgilvie named the mountain in honor of Arthur Harper, recognized as the first man to enter the Yukon country seeking gold,[1][2]

See also

References

  1. Stuck, Hudson (1917). Voyages on the Yukon and Its Tributaries: A Narrative of Summer Travel in the Interior of Alaska (Public domain ed.). C. Scribner's Sons. p. 86.
  2. Bundtzen, Thomas K.; Hawley, Charles C. (2009). "Arthur Harper". Alaska Mining Hall of Fame. Retrieved 21 July 2013.

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