| 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 |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | On BC-Alberta boundary at head of Fitzwilliam Creek in Mount Robson Provincial Park, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°49'54"N, 118°23'49"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83D/16 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in 1928 by the Geographic Board of Canada, as labelled on BC-Alberta Boundary sheet 29, 1917. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1916 by Morrison Parsons Bridgeland, founding member of the Alpine Club of Canada, and surveyor associated with BC Boundary Commissioner A.O. Wheeler, because the flat-topped mountain resembles a fort. Source: Place Names of Alberta, Alberta Geographical Names Program and Friends of Geographical Names of Alberta Society, University of Calgary Press, 4 volumes, 1991-1996. |
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Kataka is the Indian word for "fort" (Place Names of Alberta, 1928). Source: Place Names of Alberta; published for the Geographic Board by Department of Interior, Ottawa, 1928. |