Information About

Dickins Peak

Quick Facts

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Location

56 ° 15' 52.999" N,
130 ° 42' 9" W

Region

Ketchikan Gateway

Nearest City

Hyder

Elevation

5840 ft (1780.03 m)

Dickins Peak in Detail.

About

3 mi. W of Mount Middleton and Alaska-Canada boundary, 36 mi. NW of Hyder, Coast Mts.

History

Named in 1923 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Edmund Finlay Dickins, 1846-1923, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), who was an International Boundary Commission (IBC) surveyor in 1893 and 1895 and later commanded the Coast Survey steamer Gedney from 1899 to 1905.