Mount Onderdonk

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Mount Onderdonk
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Mount Onderdonk
Location in Canada
Mount Onderdonk
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Highest point
Elevation 2,685 m (8,809 ft) [1]
Prominence 555 m (1,821 ft) [1]
Parent peak Remillard Peak (2881 m) [1]
Listing Mountains of British Columbia
Coordinates 51°45′39″N118°07′57″W / 51.76083°N 118.13250°W / 51.76083; -118.13250 [2]
Geography
Location British Columbia, Canada
District Kootenay Land District
Parent range Selkirk Mountains [1]
Topo map NTS 82M16 Argonaut Mountain [2]

Mount Onderdonk is a mountain in British Columbia named for Andrew Onderdonk. It is located in the northern Selkirk Mountains between lower Revelstoke Lake and the Wood Arm of Kinbasket Lake. The mountain is 280 miles from Vancouver, 1861 miles from Toronto and 2047 miles from Montreal. [3] Andrew Onderdonk was a Dutch-American engineer who worked in the late 1800s building the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia and in other locations. [4] William Lowell Putnam and Roger W. Laurilla gave the mountain this name as a tribute to Onderdonk. [5] [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Mount Onderdonk". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2021-05-28.
  3. "Where is Mount Onderdonk in Canada?". geotargit.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
  4. "Andrew Onderdonk | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
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  6. Cross, L. D. (2014-07-07). High Peaks Engineering: Rocky Mountain Marvels. Heritage House Publishing Co. ISBN   978-1-927527-81-8.