Mount Bagot is a 2,181-metre (7,156-foot) mountain summit located on, and in part defining, the international border between British Columbia, Canada, and Alaska, United States.
Description
Mount Bagot, also known as Boundary Peak 107,
[ is located in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains. The true summit is set 200 metres inside Canada and the lower Southwest Peak (7,087+ ft, 2,160+ m) lies directly on the border, from the main summit.][ Although modest in elevation, relief is significant as the west slope rises 1,720 metres (5,650 ft) in two kilometres (1.2 mile). Precipitation runoff and glacial meltwater from the mountain drains to Lynn Canal via the Katzehin River. The nearest higher neighbor is the Sawtooth Range, four miles (6.5 km) to the north.][ The first ascent of the summit was made on August 31, 1967, by Kenneth Carpenter, Ron Miller, Margaret Piggott, and Mike Wiley.][ North America, United States, Alaska, Boundary Peaks, Denver and Meade Glaciers, Southeast of Skagway, Kenneth C. Carpenter, American Alpine Journal, 1968.]
Etymology
The mountain was named jointly by the United States and Canada to honor Sir Charles Bagot (1781–1843), British Ambassador to Russia and plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg in 1822 during negotiations regarding the Alaska boundary.[Donald J. Orth, Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967, page 99.] He was the British Minister to the United States (1815–1820) and negotiated the Rush–Bagot Treaty in 1817.
Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Bagot is located in a tundra climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and cool summers.
Gallery
File:Mount Bagot, British Columbia.jpg|Mount Bagot (left) viewed looking through the Katzehin River Valley
File:Mt. Bagot.jpg|Aerial view of southwest aspect of Mt. Bagot centered on the skyline
File:Charles Bagot (1781-1843), by Francis William Wilkin (1791-1842).jpg|Charles Bagot in 1825
See also
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Geography of Alaska
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List of Boundary Peaks of the Alaska–British Columbia/Yukon border
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