Boundary ranges
Boundary ranges | |
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Location of the boundary ranges |
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Devils Thumb and Stikine Icecap |
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Highest peak | Mount Ratz ( 3090 m ) |
location | British Columbia , Yukon (Canada), Alaska (USA) |
part of | Coast Mountains |
Coordinates | 57 ° 40 ′ N , 132 ° 40 ′ W |
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The Boundary Ranges , including Alaska Boundary Ranges called, form the largest and most northern mountain range of the Coast Mountains on the border of Alaska to British Columbia . They begin in the south in British Columbia at the Nass River , near the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle , and end in the north in the Yukon Territory on the Kelsall River near the Chilkoot Pass .
To the west of the Boundary Ranges are the Alsek Ranges of the Elias chain . To the east, the Skeena Mountains , the Stikine Plateau and the Cassiar Mountains are followed by the Interior Mountains . To the northwest are the Tagish and Tahltan Highlands .
Some large glacier areas such as the Juneau Icefield and the Stikine Icecap are located in the Boundary Ranges. The highest mountain is Mount Ratz with 3090 m .
Mountains and peaks (selection)
- Mount Ratz ( 3090 m )
- Kate's Needle ( 3,053 m )
- Scud Peak ( 2987 m )
- Mount Burkett ( 2985 m )
- Ambition Mountain ( 2953 m )
- Chutine Peak ( 2903 m )
- Mount Edziza ( 2793 m )
- Devils Thumb ( 2777 m )
- Nanook Dome ( 2742 m )
- Tahltan Peak ( 2622 m )
- Devils Paw ( 2593 m )
- Michaels Sword ( 2060 m )
- Split Thumb ( 1683 m )
history
The eponymous border runs in the Boundary Ranges between the United States and Canada . It was originally regulated in the Treaty of St. Petersburg in 1825 between Russia, the then colonial power of Alaska, and the United Kingdom, as Lord of Canada, only roughly as "the ridge of the mountains, but a maximum of 30 nautical miles (ten" marine leagues ") from the coast”. After the Klondike River gold rush began , the United States, who bought Alaska from Russia in 1867, and the United Kingdom saw the need to pinpoint the boundaries. In 1903, arbitration proceedings were initiated in the Hay Herbert Treaty , during which the boundary was marked on an official map. A section was up to the correct measurement left open the area, its history was clarified later by mutual agreement.
Web links
- Boundary Ranges on Peakbagger.com (English)
- Boundary ranges in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- Boundary ranges . In: BC Geographical Names (English)