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Mount Wood, also known as Wood Peak, stands in Yukon within Kluane National Park and Reserve and is the seventh-highest mountain in Canada. Surveyor James J. McArthur named it in 1900 for Zachary Taylor Wood, a North-West Mounted Police inspector in Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush. Wood later rose to become commissioner of the NWMP, linking the mountain’s name to a prominent figure in the policing of northern Canada during that era.
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