Mount Balfour
| Mount Balfour | |
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 Mount Balfour
Location in Alberta
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 3,284 m (10,774 ft) |
| Prominence | 934 m (3,064 ft) |
| Coordinates | 51°33′55″N 116°27′58″W / 51.56528°N 116.46611°WCoordinates: 51°33′55″N 116°27′58″W / 51.56528°N 116.46611°W |
| Geography | |
| Location | Alberta / British Columbia, Canada |
| Parent range | Waputik Range |
| 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.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.
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