- Mount Troy
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Mount Troy Elevation 2,841 ft (866 m) Location Location Juneau, Alaska, United States Range Boundary Ranges Coordinates 58°16′01″N 134°28′31″W / 58.26694°N 134.47528°WCoordinates: 58°16′01″N 134°28′31″W / 58.26694°N 134.47528°W Topo map USGS Juneau B-2 Mount Troy is a mountain in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It is a peak of the Boundary Ranges, located on Douglas Island, west of the head of Kowee Creek and 3 miles (4.8 km) southwest of the city of Juneau.
In 1950, the United States Forest Service named the mountain after John Weir Troy, the territorial governor of Alaska from 1933 to 1939. The name was made official by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1952 and entered into the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System on January 1, 2000.[1]
See also
- Table Top Mountain
References
Boundary Ranges Ranges Mountains Chutine · Cinder · Devils Paw · Devils Thumb · Dipyramid · Hoodoo · Ibex · Iskut Canyon · Kates Needle · King Creek · Little Bear · London · Nesselrode · Ratz · Seconed Canyon · Snippaker Creek · The VolcanoPasses Icefields Parks Atlin · Bear Glacier · Border Lake · Lava Forks · Craig Headwaters · Great Glacier · Choquette Hot Springs · Chilkoot Trail NHSC · Misty Fjords · Admiralty Island · Klondike Gold RushCategories:- Boundary Ranges
- Landforms of Juneau City and Borough, Alaska
- Mountains of Alaska
- Southeast Alaska geography stubs
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