Boundary Ranges

• Of the United States claimed demarcation
• By the United Kingdom claimed demarcation
• 1903 mutually agreed boundary line

The Boundary Ranges, also called the Alaska Boundary Range, are the largest and most northern mountain range of the Coast Mountains on the border of Alaska to British Columbia. You start in the south in British Columbia at the Nass River, near the southern end of the Alaska Panhandle, and ends in the north at the Kelsall River near the Chilkoot Pass.

West of the Boundary Ranges are the Alsek Ranges of Elias chain. In the east, close to the Skeena Mountains, the Stikine Plateau and the Cassiar Mountains mountain ranges of the Interior Mountains. To the northwest are the Tagish and Tahltan Highlands.

Some large glacier areas such as the Juneau Icefield and the Stikine Icecap lie in the Boundary Ranges. The highest mountains include Mount Ratz 3090 m, 2910 m and with Chutine Peak Devils Thumb with 2766 m.

History

In the Boundary Ranges eponymous border between the United States and Canada runs. It was originally in 1825 " (" marine leagues "Ten ) the ridge line of the mountains, but not more than 30 nautical miles from the coast " regulated in the Treaty of St. Petersburg between Russia as a former colonial power in Alaska and the United Kingdom as Mr. Canada's only roughly as. After the beginning of the Gold Rush of the Klondike River, the United States, which had purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, and the United Kingdom saw the necessity of the limits to be determined accurately. 1903 was initiated arbitration proceedings in the Hay- Herbert Treaty, during which the demarcation was marked on an official map. One section was left open to the correct measurement of the area, its course was later clarified by consensus.