William Edmond Logan
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Sir William Edmond Logan, FRSE FRS FGS, was a Canadian-born geologist and the founder and first director of the Geological Survey of Canada.
Sir William Edmond Logan (1869)
Mount Logan
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Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada, and the second-highest peak in North America after Denali. The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the
William Edmond Logan
…in Wales, the home of his sister, Elizabeth Gower, on 22 June 1875, and is buried in the churchyard of St Llawddog at Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Mount Logan, Canada's highest mountain, was named in Logan's honour in 1890 by I.C. Russell of the U.S. Geological Survey. The rare mineral weloganite, discovered…
Mount Logan from the southeast
Mount Logan from the North East, as seen from Kluane Icefield
A climber on the knife ridge (east ridge)