Mount Munday
| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | NW of junction of Mosley Creek and Homathko River, SE of Mount Waddington, Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°19'42"N, 125°12'56"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92N/6 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 3 April 1928 on Ottawa file OBF 1018. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Don Munday, mountaineer, headed a 1926 climbing party into "Mystery Mountain" [later Mount Waddington]. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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After Walter Alfred Don Munday (1890 - 1950), at the forefront of mountaineering in British Columbia's Coast Range, particularly the Mount Waddington area. Don Munday's obituary and a chronology of his climbs in Canadian Alpine Journal 1951, p.146-152. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |