| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of Pine Pass, E of Mackenzie (municipality), Peace River Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 55°23'29"N, 122°34'30"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93O/7 |
| Related Maps: |
93O/7 93O/8 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 2 September 1954 on 93O. Also Mount Murray. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Extends from the vicinity of the confluence of Callazon Creek and Pine River 25+km in a southwesterly direction along the east side of Pine Pass and Atunatche Creek to Stack Creek, a tributary of Misinchinka River. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Named by the Forest Service, after N.F. Murray, who in 1915 with G.V. Copley, had conducted the first detailed survey and timber reconnaissance in the area for the BC Forest Service. Murray enlisted with the CEF and was killed at Vimy the following year. See Murray River for additional biographical information. Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |