Mount Onderdonk

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]}

References

1. "Mount Onderdonk". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
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.
5. Boles, Glen W.; Putnam, William Lowell; Laurilla, Roger W. (2006). Canadian Mountain Place Names: The Rockies and Columbia Mountains. Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. ISBN   978-1-894765-79-4.
6. Cross, L. D. (2014-07-07). High Peaks Engineering: Rocky Mountain Marvels. Heritage House Publishing Co. ISBN   978-1-927527-81-8.

External links

• "Mount Onderdonk". BC Geographical Names .