Feature Type: | Peaks - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. Plural of Peak (2). |
Status: |
Official
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Name Authority: |
BC Geographical Names Office |
Relative Location: |
SW of Kitwanga on E side of Skeena River, between Terrace and Hazelton, Range 5 Coast Land District |
Latitude-Longitude: |
54°58'24"N, 128°12'38"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
Datum: |
WGS84 |
NTS Map: |
103I/16 |
Origin Notes and History:
Seven Sisters Mountain adopted 4 November 1948 on 103NE, as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer. Form of name changed to Seven Sisters Peaks 4 October 1951 on 103I.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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The Seven Sisters had attracted the attention of Dr. J. Monroe Thorington (1916), Henry S. Hall Jr (1923 and 1938) and Allen Carpe (American Alpine Journal, vol 1, p.425.); Hall has described the Seven Sisters as "...so shaped and situated as to be easily the outstanding sight west of Mount Robson." (American Alpine Journal vol IV (1), p.142.) From: "A First Ascent in the Seven Sisters Range" by Neal M. Carter, Canadian Alpine Journal vol. XXVIII, no. 1, 1941, pp.88-100, including map and photographs.
Source: included with note
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Total peak-to-peak distance is 4243m (2.6 miles). The Seven Sisters are best viewed from the north, in the vicinity of Kitwanga or Woodcock (CPR station); from west to east they are individually named: Tlooki Peak, Weeskinisht Peak, Tagai Peak, Tingi Peak, Kitshin Peak, Kletoosho Peak and Tautoosho Peak - the Tsimshian/Gitxsan words for One, Top of the Mountain, Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven, respectively; with the exception of Weeskinisht (Top of the Mountain), the other names were submitted 10 August 1977 by Neal Carter (file T.1.48.)
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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