Mount Wood is the seventh-highest mountain in Canada and is located in Kluane National Park and Reserve. In 1900 it was named by the surveyor James J. McArthur after Zachary Taylor Wood, a North-West Mounted Police inspector in Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush. He was later the commissioner of the NWMP.
Elevation: 4,842 m (15,886 ft)
Location: Yukon, Canada
Prominence: 1,190 m (3,900 ft)
Listing: North America highest peaks 14th · Canada highest major peaks 6th
Parent range: Saint Elias Mountains
Topo map: NTS 115F2 Mount Macaulay
First ascent: 1941 by Walter Wood, Anderson Blakewell and Albert Jackman
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