Bennington Peak
| Feature Type: | Peak (2) - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On Mount Fraser on the BC-Alberta boundary, at S end Mount Robson Provincial Park, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°39'16"N, 118°17'53"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83D/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary sheet #28, surveyed in 1921. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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This is the north peak of Mount Fraser, named in 1921 after Bennington, the town in Vermont where Simon Fraser was born in 1776. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |