Seven Sisters Peaks
Feature Type:Peaks - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. Plural of Peak (2).
Status: Official
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

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

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