Mount Whiteaves

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Mount Whiteaves
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Mount Whiteaves
Location in Alberta
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Mount Whiteaves
Location in British Columbia
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Mount Whiteaves
Location in Canada
Highest point
Elevation 3,145 m (10,318 ft) [1]
Prominence 285 m (935 ft) [1]
Listing
Coordinates 51°43′27″N116°47′56″W / 51.724167°N 116.798889°W / 51.724167; -116.798889 [2]
Geography
Country Canada
Provinces Alberta and British Columbia
Parent range Park Ranges
Topo map NTS 82N10 Blaeberry River [2]
Climbing
First ascent 1949 D. Greenwell, E.R. LaChapelle, D.M. Woods, J. Bishop [1] [3]

Mount Whiteaves is located west of the upper Blaeberry River and straddles the Continental Divide marking the Alberta-British Columbia border. [4] It was named in 1920 after Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, a British palaeontologist. [3] [1]

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