King Edward Peak
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King Edward Peak is a mountain
Mountain
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 located north of Starvation Creek and the U.S.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 border. The mountain was named in 1915 after King Edward VII
Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...

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King Edward Peak should not be confused with Mt. King Edward
Mount King Edward
Mount King Edward is a mountain located at the head of the Athabasca River valley in Jasper National Park, Canada. Mt. King Edward is situated on the Continental Divide with Mt. Columbia 5½ km east. The mountain was named in 1906 by Mary Schaffer after King Edward VII.Mt...

 (3490 m (11,450 ft)), located on the Continental Divide
Continental Divide
The Continental Divide of the Americas, or merely the Continental Gulf of Division or Great Divide, is the name given to the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain...

farther north, although it too was named after King Edward.
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