Mount Jetté, also named Boundary Peak 177, is a mountain located near the tri-point of

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, and

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along the

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, and part of the Southern Icefield Ranges of the

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.Mount Jette, Alaska/British Columbia
/ref> It is named in 1908 for Sir

Louis-Amable Jetté Sir Louis-Amable Jetté, (; 15 January 1836 – 5 May 1920) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, judge, and professor who served as lieutenant governor of Quebec and chief justice of the Court of King's Bench. Biography He was born in L'A ...

, (1836-1920), a member of the 1903 Canadian Boundary Tribunal, leading to the resolution of the

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, and Lieutenant Governor of the

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from 1898 to 1908. The peak of Mount Jetté is not far from the westernmost point in British Columbia.

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* Two-thousanders of the United States Two-thousanders of British Columbia Saint Elias Mountains Canada–United States border International mountains of North America Mountains of Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska Cassiar Land District {{YakutatAK-geo-stub

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