Mount Alverstone

{{Short description|Mountain on the border of Canada and Alaska}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Alverstone

| photo = Mount Alverstone.jpg

| elevation_system = NAVD88

| elevation = 4420 m (14,500 ft)

| elevation_ref = {{cite web|url=http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=543|title=Mount Alverstone, Alaska-Yukon|publisher=Peakbagger.com|access-date=December 30, 2015 }}

| prominence = 594 m (1950 ft)

| prominence_ref =

| isolation = 3.62 km (2.25 mi)

| isolation_ref =

| listing = {{unbulleted list

|Mountains of Yukon

|North America highest peaks 25th

|Canada highest major peaks 12th

|US highest major peaks 12th

}}

| location = Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska, U.S. / Yukon, Canada

| range = Saint Elias Mountains

| parent_peak = Mount Hubbard

| map = USA Alaska#Canada Yukon

| map_caption = Location in Alaska##Location in Yukon

| map_size = 250

| coordinates = {{coord|60|21|06|N|139|04|31|W|type:mountain_region:US-AK_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=1398161|name=Mount Alverstone|access-date=2014-04-06}}

| topo = USGS Mount Saint Elias B-3
NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|115|B|6}}

| first_ascent = 1951 by Walter Wood, Peter Wood, Robert Bates, Nicholas Clifford

| easiest_route = glacier/snow/ice climb

}}

Mount Alverstone or Boundary Peak 180, is a high peak in the Saint Elias Mountains, on the border between Alaska and Yukon. It shares a large massif with the higher Mount Hubbard to the south and the slightly lower Mount Kennedy to the east. The summit of Mount Alverstone marks a sharp turn in the Alaska/Canada border; the border goes south from this point toward the Alaska panhandle and west toward Mount Saint Elias.

The mountain was named in 1908 for Lord Richard Everard Webster Alverstone, Lord Chief Justice of England, 1900–13, and U.S. Boundary Commissioner in 1903. He served on various arbitration commissions including the one dealing with the Bering Sea Fur seal controversy. In the Alaska boundary dispute in 1903, his vote was the deciding one against Canadian claims.

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