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Mount Harper

Mount Harper

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For other uses, see Mount Harper (disambiguation).

Mount Harper is a deeply eroded Late Proterozoic volcanic complex located 71 km (44 mi) north of Dawson City and 33 km (21 mi) west of Mount Gibben. Mount Harper is in the Ogilvie Mountains and is the 1,200 m (3,900 ft) thick remnant of a subaqueous-to-emergent basaltic shield volcano capped by small rhyodacitic and andesitic lava flows. It oversteps the Harper Fault.

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In 1888, William Olgilvie named the mountain in honor of Arthur Harper, recognized as the first man to enter the Yukon country seeking gold.[1][2]

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  1. [1]
    Stuck, Hudson (1917). Voyages on the Yukon and Its Tributaries: A Narrative of Summer Travel in the Interior of Alaska (Public domain ed.). C. Scribner's Sons. p. 86.
  2. [2]
    Bundtzen, Thomas K.; Hawley, Charles C. (2009). "Arthur Harper". Alaska Mining Hall of Fame. Retrieved 21 July 2013.


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