| Feature Type: | Range (2) - Group or chain of mountains or hills. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Pronounced: | Cla na COO-din |
| Relative Location: | Just NE of Revelstoke, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°04'59"N, 118°06'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82M/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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"Clachnacudainn Range (not Clach-na-coodin)" adopted in the 9th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 30 June 1910. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"...ragged ridges and white domes of the group called Clach-na-coodin..." (The Selkirk Range of BC, by A.O. Wheeler, 1905, p.40). Bounded on the west by Lake Revelstoke; on the north by Carnes Creek; on the east by Woolsey Creek; on the south by Illecillewaet River. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named after Clachnacudainn, Inverness, Scotland. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Clachnacuddan (Gaelic: "stone for the tubs") a stone at a street corner, Inverness, Scotland. Source: Provincial Archives of BC "Place Names File" compiled 1945-1950 by A.G. Harvey from various sources, with subsequent additions |