Mount Balfour

Mount Balfour
Mount Balfour Location in Alberta
Elevation	3,284 m (10,774 ft)[1]
Prominence	934 m (3,064 ft)[2]
Location
Location	Alberta / British Columbia, Canada
Range	Waputik Range
Coordinates	51°33′55″N 116°27′58″W / 51.56528°N 116.46611°W / 51.56528; -116.46611Coordinates: 51°33′55″N 116°27′58″W / 51.56528°N 116.46611°W / 51.56528; -116.46611[3]
Topo map	NTS 82N/09
Climbing
First ascent	1898 C.L. Noyes, C.S. Thompson, G.M. Weed; Appalachian Mountain Club

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][2]It is the 49th highest peak in Alberta and the 63rd highest in British Columbia; it is also the 52nd most prominence 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.^[3]

See also

• Mountains of Alberta
• Mountains of British Columbia
• List of peaks on the British Columbia–Alberta border

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