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: 4,850 m (15,910 ft)
Prominence: 1,190 m (3,900 ft)
Parent peak: Mount Steele (5073 m)
Listing: North America highest peaks 14th · Canada highest major peaks 6th
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