Feature Type: | Mountain - Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. |
Status: |
Official
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Name Authority: |
BC Geographical Names Office |
Relative Location: |
Just inside BC-Alberta boundary on NW side North Kootenay Pass, SE of Fernie, Kootenay Land District |
Latitude-Longitude: |
49°24'45"N, 114°36'26"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
Datum: |
WGS84 |
NTS Map: |
82G/7 |
Origin Notes and History:
Centre Mountain adopted 6 April 1950 on BC map 4D, Fernie, not Mount Centre as labelled on BC-Alberta Boundary sheet 3, published in 1917 from surveys in 1914. (file F.1.149).
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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