Mount Gorman | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 2,380 m (7,810 ft) [1] [2] |
Prominence | 470 m (1,540 ft) [3] |
Parent peak | Mount Minnes (2421 m) [3] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 54°10′43″N120°00′12″W / 54.17861°N 120.00333°W [4] |
Geography | |
Country | Canada |
Provinces | Alberta and British Columbia |
Parent range | Northern Rocky Mountains [3] |
Topo map | NTS 93I1 Jarvis Lakes [4] |
Mount Gorman is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1925 after A.O. Gorman, a government surveyor with the Dominion Land Survey. [2] [4] [5]
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Paragon Peak is located at the southern end of Mount Robson Provincial Park on the border of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada. It was named in 1921 by Howard Palmer.
Simon Peak is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, at the Southern end of Mount Robson Provincial Park. It is the highest peak of Mount Fraser. It was named in 1920 by the Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission.
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Mount Spring-Rice is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia, south of Thompson Pass. It was named in 1918 by Arthur O. Wheeler after the British diplomat, Sir Cecil Spring Rice.
Mount Whiteaves is located west of the upper Blaeberry River and straddles the Continental Divide marking the Alberta-British Columbia border. It was named in 1920 after Joseph Frederick Whiteaves, a British palaeontologist.
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Gilgit Mountain is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia at the head of Waitabit Creek and NE of Golden. It was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie for Gilgit, Pakistan. Collie had accompanied Albert F. Mummery in an expedition to Nanga Parbat in 1895 where Mummery and two Gurkhas were killed in an avalanche on the mountain. Gilgit was the last civilization seen by the expedition.
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