Mount Logan is the highest mountain

Mountain

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 in Canada

Canada

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 and the second-highest peak

Table of the highest major summits of North America

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 in North America

North America

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, after Mount McKinley

Mount McKinley

Mount McKinley or Denali in Alaska, United States is the highest mountain peak in North America and the United States, with a summit elevation of above sea level. It is the centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve.- Geology and features :Mount McKinley is a granitic pluton...

 (Denali). The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan

William Edmond Logan

Sir William Edmond Logan was a Scottish-Canadian geologist.Logan was born in Montreal, Quebec, and educated at the High School in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh . He started teaching himself geology in 1831, when he took over the running of a copper works in Swansea. He produced a...

, a Canadian geologist

Geologist

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 and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is located within Kluane National Park and Reserve

Kluane National Park and Reserve

Kluane National Park and Reserve are two units of Canada's national park system, located in the extreme southwestern corner of Yukon Territory. Kluane National Park Reserve was established in 1972, covering 22,016 square kilometres....

 in southwestern Yukon

Yukon

Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....

 and is the source of the Hubbard

Hubbard Glacier

Hubbard Glacier is a glacier located in eastern Alaska and part of Canada.The longest source for Hubbard Glacier originates from its snout and is located at about at about , approximately west of Mt. Walsh with an altitude around . A shorter tributary glacier begins at the easternmost summit on...

 and Logan Glacier

Logan Glacier

Logan Glacier is a glacier in the U.S. state of Alaska. It heads down the northern slopes of Mount Logan in the Yukon, flowing northwest across the Canada-United States boundary to form the headwaters of the Chitina River. It was named for its nearness to Mount Logan.-References:...

s. Logan is believed to have the largest base circumference of any non-volcanic mountain on Earth (a large number of shield volcanoes are much larger in size and mass), with the massif containing eleven peaks over 5000 metres (16,404.2 ft).

Because of active tectonic uplifting, Mount Logan is still rising in elevation.