Mount Balfour

For the mountain on the Antarctic Peninsula, see Mount Balfour (Antarctica).
Mount Balfour
Mount Balfour from Iceline Trail
Highest point
Elevation3,272 m (10,735 ft)[1][2]
Prominence934 m (3,064 ft)[3]
Parent peakHowse Peak (3295 m)[3]
Listing
Coordinates51°33′55″N 116°27′58″W / 51.56528°N 116.46611°W / 51.56528; -116.46611[4][5]
Geography
Mount Balfour is located in Alberta
Mount Balfour
Mount Balfour
Location in Alberta
Mount Balfour is located in British Columbia
Mount Balfour
Mount Balfour
Mount Balfour (British Columbia)
CountryCanada
ProvincesAlberta and British Columbia
Protected areas
Parent rangeWaputik Range
Topo mapNTS 82N9 Hector Lake[5]
Climbing
First ascent1898 C.L. Noyes, C.S. Thompson, G.M. Weed; Appalachian Mountain Club[6][7]

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][3] It is the 71st highest peak in Alberta[8] and the 113th highest in British Columbia;[9] it is also the 52nd most prominent 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.[4]

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  8. ^ "Peaks in Alberta by height". bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-08-26.
  9. ^ "List of peaks in BC". bivouac.com. Retrieved 2019-08-26.