Mount Harper


Mount Harper is a deeply eroded Late Proterozoic volcanic complex located north of Dawson City and west of Mount Gibben. Mount Harper is in the Ogilvie Mountains and is the thick remnant of a subaqueous-to-emergent basaltic shield volcano capped by small rhyodacitic and andesitic lava flows. It oversteps the Harper Fault.
In 1888, William Olgilvie named the mountain in honor of Arthur Harper, recognized as the first man to enter the Yukon country seeking gold,