Mount Image
| 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: | Between heads of Kilippi and Klinaklini Glaciers, E of Rivers Inlet (community), Range 2 Coast Land District |
| Tags: | World War II |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°33'36"N, 126°01'57"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92M/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Mount Image adopted 28 March 1967 on 92M. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named to remember RCAF Pilot Officer Leslie Image, J87777, enlisted at North Vancouver. P/O Image was serving with 425 Squadron flying operations over Europe when he was killed in action 29 July 1944, age 21. With no known grave, his name is inscribed on the Runnymede Memorial, Surrey, UK, panel 250. Survived by parents Herbert George and Lily Lavinia Image, Vancouver. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |