Boundary ranges

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Boundary ranges
Location of the boundary ranges

Location of the boundary ranges

Devils Thumb and Stikine Icecap

Devils Thumb and Stikine Icecap

Highest peak Mount Ratz ( 3090  m )
location British Columbia , Yukon (Canada), Alaska (USA)
part of Coast Mountains
Coordinates 57 ° 40 ′  N , 132 ° 40 ′  W Coordinates: 57 ° 40 ′  N , 132 ° 40 ′  W
Boundary claimed by the United States Boundary claimed by the United Kingdom 1903 mutually agreed boundary
  • demarcation claimed by the United States
  • demarcation claimed by the UK
  • 1903 mutually agreed border
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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)

    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.

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