Mount Hooker (New Zealand)
Mount Hooker is the name of several mountains worldwide: *Mount Hooker (Antarctica) *Mount Hooker (Canada), a mountain on the Continental Divide and border between British Columbia and Alberta, Canada **Hooker and Brown, mythical mountains alleged to exist in the Canadian Rockies *Mount Hooker (New Zealand) in the Southern Alps *Mount Hooker (Wyoming) Mount Hooker () is located in the Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Mount Hooker was named for Joseph Dalton Hooker, the prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer. The north and east slopes of Mount Hooker present some of t ...

Mount Hooker (Antarctica)
Mount Hooker () is a rounded summit over high, standing immediately south of Mount Lister in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04, which named it for Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (30 June 1817 – 10 December 1911) was a British botanist and explorer in the 19th century. He was a founder of geographical botany and Charles Darwin's closest friend. For twenty years he served as director of t .... References Royal Society Range Mountains of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub ...
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Mount Hooker (Canada)
Mount Hooker is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. It was named in 1827 by David Douglas after William Jackson Hooker. Until the turn of the century, Mount Hooker and the nearby Mount Brown were thought to be the highest mountains in the Canadian Rockies (see Hooker and Brown Hooker and Brown are two mythical mountains, once reputed to lie on the great Divide of the Canadian Rockies in Jasper National Park, bordering the Athabasca Pass, the old passage for the fur trade. These two peaks were reputed to be the highest ...). See also * List of peaks on the British Columbia–Alberta border References Three-thousanders of Alberta Three-thousanders of British Columbia Canadian Rockies {{FraserFortGeorge-geo-stub ...
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Hooker And Brown
Hooker and Brown are two mythical mountains, once reputed to lie on the great Divide of the Canadian Rockies in Jasper National Park, bordering the Athabasca Pass, the old passage for the fur trade. These two peaks were reputed to be the highest mountains in North America at over , and were maintained to be so on maps and atlases, for almost a hundred years, spurring the early mountaineers arriving on the railway (1890) to explore the Rockies and discover features such as the Columbia Icefield. Discovery and Naming David Thompson, a Canadian surveyor, explorer and geographer, first established the route through Athabasca Pass in January 1811 when the Peigan Indians closed Howse Pass to prevent his trading with their rivals, the Kootenay people. Although he mapped the route carefully, Thompson was not interested in mountains and did not name or note them in his journals. His journey joined with the Columbia river and the trail became the premier trade passage over the Rockies un ...
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Mount Hooker (New Zealand)
Mount Hooker is the name of several mountains worldwide: *Mount Hooker (Antarctica) *Mount Hooker (Canada), a mountain on the Continental Divide and border between British Columbia and Alberta, Canada **Hooker and Brown, mythical mountains alleged to exist in the Canadian Rockies *Mount Hooker (New Zealand) in the Southern Alps *Mount Hooker (Wyoming) Mount Hooker () is located in the Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Mount Hooker was named for Joseph Dalton Hooker, the prominent 19th-century British botanist and explorer. The north and east slopes of Mount Hooker present some of t ...