Mount Caubvik
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| Mount Caubvik | |
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| Elevation: | 1,652 metres (5,420 feet) |
| Coordinates: | Template:Coor dm |
| Location: | Labrador-Quebec Canada |
| Topo map: | NTS 014/L13 |
| Range: | Torngat Mountains |
| 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. Mount Caubvik is the highest coastal point on the east coast of the North America and is the second highest mountain in Canada east of the Rocky Mountains (Barbeau Peak is the highest).
Mount Caubvik is also hosts the highest points in both the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador, although the summit itself lies about 10 metres northeast of the provincial border and is entirely within Labrador.
Normally, this would not be much of an issue, there are probably many other peaks in the world where the exact high spot is not precisely on the watershed that marks a border, but in this case the name D'Iberville could be taken as offensive to those in Newfoundland. Therefore, strictly speaking, this is not a case of a single border peak having two names, but rather a case of two separate peaks. D'Iberville is about a foot lower than Caubvick and has a prominence of essentially zero, making it really just a shoulder and not even a sub-peak.