Mont Hubbard from Enchantment Bay with the Hubbard Glacier in the foreground

Mount Hubbard is one of the major

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s of the

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. It is located on the

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border; the

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side is within Kluane National Park and Reserve, and the American side is part of Wrangell–St. Elias National Park. The mountain was named in 1890 by U.S. Geological Survey geologist

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after Gardiner Greene Hubbard, first president of the

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, which had co-sponsored Russell's expedition. Hubbard is the highest point of a large massif with three named summits; the other two are Mount Alverstone and Mount Kennedy. Alverstone and Hubbard form a corner of the

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: the border extends roughly south from these peaks toward the

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, and roughly west toward

Mount Saint Elias Mount Saint Elias (also designated Boundary Peak 186), the second-highest mountain in both Canada and the United States, stands on the Yukon and Alaska border about southwest of Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada. The Canadian side of ...

, approximately away. The

Hubbard Glacier __NOTOC__ Hubbard Glacier ( Lingít: ''Sít' Tlein'') is a glacier located in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve in eastern Alaska and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, Canada, and named after Gardiner Hubbard. Geography ...

separates Mount Hubbard from Mount Vancouver to the west, while the Lowell Glacier lies to the east of the peak. Mount Hubbard is the eighth-highest peak in the United States, and the twelfth-highest peak in Canada. It is also notable for its large rise above local terrain. For example, its west face rises above the Alverstone Glacier in less than , and the peak rises above the Hubbard Glacier to the southwest in only . Mount Hubbard is just over from tidewater at

Disenchantment Bay Disenchantment Bay extends southwest for from the mouth of Russell Fiord to Point Latouche, at the head of Yakutat Bay in Alaska. Named "Puerto del Desengano", Spanish for "bay of disenchantment", by Alessandro Malaspina in 1792, upon finding ...

. However, despite its precipitous drops to the west, the eastern side provides a non-technical (though long) route to the summit. __NOTOC__

Notes

# Both of these use a

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cutoff of 300 metres; different cutoffs are often used, see e.g. the List of United States fourteeners.

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External links

Mount Hubbard on bivouac.com
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"Mount Hubbard, Yukon Territory/Alaska" on Peakbagger
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