Wallbridge Mountain
| Feature Type: | Mountain - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | SW of Cecilia Lake in Kakwa Provincial Park, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 53°54'12"N, 120°04'09"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 93H/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 1 December 1925 on BC-Alberta boundary sheet 38. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by boundary surveyors in 1923, referring to the impregnable aspect of the feature; an extremely steep shale slope or wall extends almost 3 miles from this feature to Bastille Mountain - "a great wall of rock shaped like a cantilever span." Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |