Mount Lucania

Mount Lucania
Mount Steele (centre), with Mount Lucania just left of it and behind it
Highest point
Elevation5,240 m (17,190 ft)[1]
Prominence3,046 m (9,993 ft)[2]
Parent peakMount Logan (5959 m)
Listing
Coordinates61°01′24″N 140°27′56″W / 61.0233333°N 140.4655556°W / 61.0233333; -140.4655556[3]
Geography
Mount Lucania is located in Yukon
Mount Lucania
Mount Lucania
Location in Canada
CountryCanada
TerritoryYukon
Parent rangeSaint Elias Mountains
Topo mapNTS 115F1 Mount Steele[3]
Climbing
First ascent1937 by Bradford Washburn and Robert Hicks Bates
Easiest routeGlacier, snow and ice climb

Mount Lucania in Yukon is the third-highest mountain in Canada (5240 metres), and the second-highest mountain located entirely within the country (the summit of Mount Saint Elias, Canada's second highest peak, is shared with the US state of Alaska). A long ridge connects Mount Lucania with Mount Steele (5,073 metres [16,644 feet]), the fifth-highest in Canada. Lucania was named by the Duke of Abruzzi, as he stood on the summit of Mount Saint Elias on July 31, 1897, having just completed the first ascent. Seeing Lucania in the far distance, beyond Mount Logan, he immediately named it "after the ship on which the expedition had sailed from Liverpool to New York," the RMS Lucania.[4]

  1. ^ "Topographic map of Mount Lucania". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  2. ^ "Mount Lucania". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  3. ^ a b "Mount Lucania". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
  4. ^ Roberts, David (2002). Escape from Lucania. Simon & Schuster. pp. 57. ISBN 1-4165-6767-4.