Feature Type: | Mountains - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. Plural of Mountain. |
Status: |
Official
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Name Authority: |
BC Geographical Names Office |
Relative Location: |
Between Rocky Mountain Trench and the Interior Plateau, S of 54º, Kootenay Land District |
Latitude-Longitude: |
50°59'59"N, 118°00'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
Datum: |
WGS84 |
NTS Map: |
82L/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
"Columbia System" adopted 2 April 1918; form of name changed to Columbia Mountains 7 May 1959 on 82 L/16, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 922A, Map of the Canadian Cordillera, 1948 (file R.2.27).
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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Comprised of the Purcell Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, Monashee Mountains and Caribou Mountains.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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