Description
On the Alaska-Canada boundary, 5 mi N of Hyder; Coast Mts.
History
Named in 1923 by U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS) for Captain Philip A. Welker, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), an International Boundary Commission (IBC) surveyor from 1893 to 1895 and "who, in 1895, astromonically determined the southern land origin of the Alaska Lisiere boundary, at a point about 2 miles east of this peak * * *."