Mount Caubvik
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| Elevation | 1,652 metres (5,420 feet) |
| Location | Labrador-Quebec Canada |
| Range | Torngat Mountains |
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| Topo map | NTS 014/L13 |
| First ascent | 1973 by Goetze and Adler |
| Easiest route | hike |
Mount Caubvik (known as Mont D'Iberville in Quebec) is a mountain located on the border between Labrador and Quebec in the Torngat Mountains Selamiut Range. Mount Caubvick is the highest peak in mainland Canada east of the Rockies. Although it has a relatively low elevation, it is a spectacular, massive peak that rises steeply from near sea level and features glaciers, steep cirques, and craggy ridges. Extremely remote and difficult to access, there is no easy way to the summit.
The alp was named Mont d'Iberville by the Quebec government in 1971. It remained nameless on the Labrador side for several years, it became unofficially know as L1, L for Labrador and 1 for highest. In 1981, on the suggestion of Dr. Peter Neary, the provincial government named the mountain after one of the five Inuit who accompanied George Cartwright to England in 1772.
Mount Caubvik also hosts the highest point in both the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec, although the summit itself lies about 10 metres northeast of the Quebec provincial border and is entirely within Labrador.
American climbers Michael Adler and Christopher Goetze were the first to scale the peak in 1973. The first Canadian party climbed the mountain on August 14, 1978. In that party were Ray Chipeniuk, Ron Parker, and Erik Sheer.
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