Adopted 3 March 1955 on 92P, as labelled on Geological Survey sheet 557, Kamloops, 1895, and on BC Lands' maps 1EM and 1G, 1915 & 1916 respectively, and as identified in the 1930 BC Gazetteer.

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Situated on the height of land between North Thompson River, Bonaparte and Criss Creek/Deadman River watersheds. Elevation identified as 5450' on 1895 CGS map, and so-labelled on subsequent provincial maps. Elevation corrected 3 May 1961 to 5382', as confirmed by Trigonometric Control, BC.

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A Shuswap name, Sko-whautl, meaning "pointed or upstanding" (George M. Dawson, Notes on the Shuswap People of British Columbia, Trans. Royal Society Canada, vol IX, sec II, 1891). Sketch & description in Canadian Geological Survey Annual Report 1894, p.223B.

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This feature is incorrectly labelled "Poison Butte" on 1928 map "Headwaters of Deadman River" prepared by BC Forest Service draughtsman R. Sheldon Williams (see BC Forest Service pamphlet with copy of Williams' 1928 map, reproduced for Forest Inventory Branch's 80th Reunion in September 1992, file B.1.61.) [the feature known as Poison Hill - labelled on maps since 1895 or earlier - is 4 miles south of here at the head of Skull Creek.]

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