Mount Ogilvie

Mount Ogilvie is a 7,867-foot-elevation (2,398-meter) mountain summit located on, and in part defining, the international border between Alaska, United States, and British Columbia, Canada.

[1] Although modest in elevation, relief is significant as the summit rises 3,400 feet (1,036 m) above the Gilkey Glacier in one mile (1.62 km).

Precipitation runoff and glacial meltwater from the mountain drains to Lynn Canal via the Gilkey River.

[1] The mountain was named in 1923 by Lawrence Martin to honor William Ogilvie (1846–1912), a Canadian official whose surveys in 1893–95 helped establish the Alaska-Canada boundary.

[7] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Coast Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.