Pequod Mountain
| 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: | In the Battle Range, S of Glacier National Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°57'42"N, 117°23'55"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/14 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 1 November 1963 on 82 K/14, as submitted March 1960 by S. Silverstein, Alpine Club of Canada (file D.1.45). Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1958-59 by the Silverstein-Anger climbing party (Canadian Alpine Journal, 1960, p.38), part of a suite of Herman Melville-related names: in Melville's book "Moby Dick", Captain Ahab sailed on the ship Pequod in search of his nemesis, the whale Moby Dick. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |