mountain, 15,700 ft., on the Alaska-Canada boundary, 26 mi. E of Mount Augusta and 55 mi. N of Yakutat, St. Elias Mts.
Named by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), in 1874, for Captain George Vancouver, Royal Navy (RN), 1757-98, British navigator who explored the SE coast of Alaska in 1792-94. The name was first published in the 1881 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) Coast Pilot (p. 211). It was first climbed July 5, 1949 (Farquhar, 1959, p. 232).