Purity 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: | W end of Purity Range on S boundary of Glacier National Park, E of Revelstoke, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°05'40"N, 117°28'09"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 29 May 1901, as labelled on early mountaineering maps. (see reproductions that accompany The Selkirk Range, by A.O. Wheeler, 1905, vol 2.) Also Purity Glacier Source: BC place name cards, files, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer/Geographical Names Office. |
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Named in 1890 by H.W. Topham, Alpine Club, London (The Alpine Journal, vol 15, 1891.) Shown on Messrs. Huber and Topham's map, 1891, and mentioned by C.S. Thompson in the journal Appalachia, January 1892. ("Mountains of North Kootenay" published in The Kootenay Mail, Revelstoke; 15 February 1901, p.1) Source: included with note |