Vancouver Island Ranges
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Template:Short description Template:Infobox mountain The Vancouver Island Ranges, formerly called the Vancouver Island Mountains, are a series of mountain ranges extending along the length of Vancouver Island which has an area of Template:Cvt. The Vancouver Island Ranges comprise the central and largest part of the island.[1] The Geological Survey of Canada refers to Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, and the Alaska Panhandle as the Insular Belt including the sea floor out to 100 km (62 mi) west of Vancouver Island.[2] The Vancouver Island Ranges are a sub-range of the Insular Mountains.
Explorations
The first European sighting[3] of these ranges was likely Sir Francis Drake. A sighting of land on June 5, 1579 was recorded by his crew aboard the vessel Golden Hind at a latitude of 48 degrees north but not finding safe harbour, they moved on southward. The highest peak of the Vancouver Island Ranges, the Golden Hinde, is named for his vessel.
The first European explorer likely to have observed any of the mountains of the Vancouver Island Ranges would have been Captain Juan José Pérez aboard the Spanish frigate Santiago. Although he anchored off Estevan Point, on August 8, 1774 he did not land. Captain James Cook entered Nootka Sound March 29, 1778 and spent about a month refitting his ships Discovery and Resolution. His logs contain the first recorded reference to the mountains of Vancouver Island. In 1788 British Captain John Meares began a small settlement at Nootka Sound and the following year, the Spanish built a permanent fort at Friendly Cove (Yuquot) in Nuu-chah-nulth territory. The Spanish claimed sovereignty and a dispute arose which was resolved with the Nootka Convention of the 1794. There was little further exploration until the Hudson's Bay Company was granted rights to Vancouver Island on January 13, 1849 leading to the first attempt, by Captain Hamilton Moffat in 1852 to ascend a major peak on the Island when he attempted Rugged Mountain.
Adam Grant Horne located a trail across the island from the Qualicum River to the Alberni Inlet in 1856 and Joseph Despard Pemberton, Surveyor General of the Colony of Vancouver Island explored much of the southern half of the Island in 1857. The southern Island was further explored by the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition in 1865. By the mid-1880s the southern half of the island had been explored and by 1890 the northern region had been explored as well. The central part of the island, the area now within Strathcona Provincial Park, was explored by Reverend William Washington Bolton, Headmaster of the Victoria School for Boys, in 1894 and 1896.
Ranges
Only a few of the many subranges of the Vancouver Island Ranges have official names. These are:
- Refugium Range: On the Brooks Peninsula.
- Sophia Range: On Nootka Island, on the peninsula between Esperanza Inlet and Nuchatlitz Inlet.
- Genevieve Range: Nootka Island.
- Karmutzen Range: Between Nimpkish Lake, Tlakwa Creek and Karmuzten Creek.
- Hankin Range: Between Nimpkish Lake and Bonanza Lake.
- Franklin Range: Near Robson Bight on the Johnstone Strait between the Tsitika River and Kokish River.
- Bonanza Range: Between the Nimpkish River and the Tsitika River by Bonanza Lake.
- Sutton Range: Between Nimpkish River, White River, ktwanch River, Gold River.
- Newcastle Ridge: Johnstone Strait, west of Sayward-Kelsey Bay and east/north of Adams River
- Prince of Wales Range: East coast of Vancouver Island 40 km (25 mi) north of Campbell River.
- Halifax Range: Along Johnstone Strait between Amor de Cosmos Creek and Pye Creek.
- Beaufort Range: North of Port Alberni and west of Qualicum Beach.
- Pelham Range: Between the Sarita River and Alberni Inlet.
- Somerset Range: Between The Pacheena-Sarita River basins and the Klanawa River (between Nitinat Lake and Imperial Eagle channel)
- Seymour Range: Between the valley of Cowichan Lake, San Juan River and Gordon River.
- Gowlland Range: Near Victoria between Saanich Inlet and Brentwood Bay. Includes Mount Work Regional Park.
- Pierce Range: South of Gold River between the Jacklah River and the Burman River.
- Haihte Range: Between Tashsis River, the Nomash River, Zeballos Lake and Woss Lake.
The Elk River Mountains, located in Strathcona Provincial Park, are considered a range by some sources.[4]
Peaks of the Vancouver Island Ranges
| Mountain/Peak | Location | Height (metres) | Prominence (metres) | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Hinde | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,201 | 2,195 | Elk River |
| Elkhorn Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,195 | 996 | Elk River |
| Victoria Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,163 | 1,849 | Sutton |
| Mount Colonel Foster | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,135 | 864 | Elk River |
| Mount Albert Edward | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,093 | 1,203 | ? |
| Rambler Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,092 | 647 | Elk River |
| Mount McBride | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,083 | 918 | ? |
| Kings Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,065 | 328 | Elk River |
| Mount Celeste | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,041 | 369 | ? |
| The Comb | 2,040 | 0 | ? | |
| Mount Filberg | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,035 | 0 | ? |
| The Red Pillar | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,035 | 0 | ? |
| Mount Cobb | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 2,031 | 0 | ? |
| The Behinde | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,989 | 0 | |
| Mount Colwell | 1,989 | 0 | ||
| Alexandra Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,983 | 0 | |
| Argus Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,982 | 0 | |
| Mount Harmston | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,982 | 0 | |
| Mount Regan | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,982 | 0 | |
| Iceberg Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,977 | 0 | |
| Warden Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,970 | 0 | |
| El Piveto Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,969 | 500 | |
| Mount Rosseau | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,962 | 0 | |
| Comox Glacier | 1,960 | 0 | ||
| Mount Haig-Brown | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,947 | 0 | |
| Mount Frink | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,921 | 0 | |
| Shepherd Ridge | 1,921 | 0 | ||
| Peak 1920 | 1,920 | 0 | ||
| Peak 1909 | 1,909 | 0 | ||
| Mount George V | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,884 | 0 | |
| The Misthorns | 1,880 | 0 | ||
| Tzela Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,880 | 0 | |
| Rugged Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,875 | 0 | Haihte |
| Mount Adrian | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,870 | 0 | |
| Mount Shoen | 1,862 | 0 | ||
| Big Interior Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,863 | 0 | |
| Sutton Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,862 | 0 | |
| Mount Septimus | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,850 | 0 | |
| Crown Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,846 | 1339 | |
| Nine Peaks | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,842 | 0 | |
| Syd Watts Peak | 1,840 | 0 | ||
| Siokum Mountain | 1,840 | 0 | ||
| Siocomb Peak | 1,840 | 0 | ||
| Mount Mitchell | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,838 | 0 | |
| Jutland Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,838 | 0 | |
| Puzzle Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,828 | 0 | |
| Maquilla Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,821 | 0 | |
| Mount Arrowsmith | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,817 | 1,429 | |
| Mount Donner | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,812 | 0 | |
| Mount Kent-Urquhart | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,811 | 0 | |
| Mount Myra | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,810 | 0 | |
| Matchlee Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,806 | 0 | |
| Moyeha Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,804 | 0 | |
| Mount Cain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,804 | 0 | |
| Mount Abel | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,800 | 0 | |
| Ptarmigan Pinnacles | 1,800 | 0 | ||
| Morrison Spire | 1,800 | 0 | ||
| Merlon Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,798 | 0 | |
| Mount Laing | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,798 | 0 | |
| Mount Tom Taylor | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,778 | 0 | |
| Mariner Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,778 | 0 | |
| Big Den Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,776 | 0 | |
| Peak 5800 | 1,768 | 0 | ||
| Bonanza Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,767 | 0 | |
| Hapush Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,767 | 0 | |
| Marble Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,767 | 0 | |
| Splendour Mountain | 1,766 | 0 | ||
| Mount Palmerston | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,763 | 0 | |
| Mount Burman | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,756 | 0 | |
| Mount Judson | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,747 | 0 | |
| Mount Beadnell | 1,746 | 0 | ||
| Mount Ashwood | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,744 | 0 | |
| Mount Con Reid | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,744 | 0 | |
| Mount Alston | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,743 | 0 | |
| Watchtower Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,740 | 0 | |
| Mount Russell | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,740 | 0 | |
| Elk Mountain | 1,737 | 0 | ||
| Ya'ai Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,736 | 0 | |
| Trio Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,732 | 0 | |
| Phillips Ridge | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,732 | 0 | |
| Mount Thelwood | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,731 | 0 | |
| Mount Phillips | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,723 | 0 | |
| Mount Adam | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,729 | 0 | |
| Mount DeVoe | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,710 | 0 | |
| Haihte Spire | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,706 | 0 | |
| Jagged Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,701 | 0 | |
| Whiltilla Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,693 | 0 | Bonanza Range |
| Popsicle Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,682 | 0 | |
| Mount Bate | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,680 | 0 | |
| Volcano Peak | 1,676 | 0 | ||
| Mount Abraham | 1,676 | 0 | ||
| South Blades | 1,676 | 0 | ||
| Scimitar Peak | 1,676 | 0 | ||
| Tyee Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,672 | 0 | |
| Hkusam Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,670 | 0 | Prince of Wales |
| Mount Heber | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,666 | 0 | |
| Crest Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,661 | 0 | |
| Tsitika Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,657 | 0 | |
| Mount Juliet | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,637 | 0 | |
| Ms. Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,655 | 0 | |
| Mount Nora | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,648 | 0 | |
| Mount Sarai | 1,646 | 0 | ||
| Mount Derby | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,646 | 0 | |
| Klitsa Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,642 | 0 | |
| Queen Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,640 | 0 | |
| Mount Romeo | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,637 | 0 | |
| Mount McKelvie | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,630 | 0 | |
| Hyro Peak | 1,628 | 0 | ||
| Eden Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,625 | 0 | |
| Mount Cokely | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,616 | 0 | |
| Kokummi Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,615 | 0 | Sutton |
| Thumb Peak | 1,615 | 0 | ||
| Mount Moriarty | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,610 | 0 | |
| Big Baldy Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,610 | 0 | |
| Bancroft Peak | 1605? | 0 | ||
| Waring Peak | 1,601 | 0 | ||
| The Scissors | 1,597 | 0 | ||
| Woss Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,594 | 0 | |
| Mount Washington | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,585 | 510 | |
| Mount Elliott | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,581 | 0 | |
| Zeballos Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,576 | 0 | |
| Mount McQuillan | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,575 | 0 | |
| Malaspina Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,573 | 0 | |
| Peak 5150 | 1,570 | 0 | ||
| Nahmint Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,568 | 0 | |
| Mount Peel | 1,564 | 0 | ||
| Mount Joan | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,557 | 0 | Beaufort |
| Mount Grattan | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,550 | 0 | |
| Mount Flannigan | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,550 | 0 | |
| Mount ʻAlava | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,550 | 0 | |
| Pinder Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,542 | 0 | |
| Mount Whymper | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,541 | 0 | |
| Abco Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,526 | 0 | |
| Peak 5005 | 1,525 | 0 | ||
| Stevens Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,509 | 0 | |
| Barad-dur | 1,505 | 0 | ||
| Mook Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,505 | 0 | |
| El Capitan Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,492 | 0 | |
| Mount Service | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,490 | 0 | |
| Douglas Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,490 | 0 | |
| Genesis Mountain | 1,486 | 0 | ||
| Mount Titus | 1,481 | 0 | ||
| Conuma Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,481 | 0 | |
| Limestone Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,480 | 0 | |
| Adder Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,480 | 0 | |
| Megin Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,480 | 0 | |
| Lone Wolf Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,479 | 734 | |
| The Stone Trolls | 1,478 | 0 | ||
| Ursus Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,471 | 0 | |
| Mount Milner | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,470 | 0 | Prince of Wales |
| Steamboat Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,465 | 0 | |
| Mount Roberts | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,463 | 0 | Prince of Wales |
| Mount Leiner | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,458 | 0 | |
| Mount Kitchener | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,457 | 0 | |
| Tlakwa Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,457 | 0 | |
| Mount Sir John | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,429 | 0 | Franklin |
| Karmutzen Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,426 | 0 | Karmutzen |
| Leighton Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,411 | 0 | |
| Merry Widow Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,402 | 0 | |
| Snowsaddle Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,400 | 0 | Refugium |
| Jacklah Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,400 | 0 | |
| Mount Cederstedt | 1,379 | 0 | ||
| Half Dome | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,365 | 0 | Haihte |
| Mount De Cosmos | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,355 | 0 | |
| Peak 4400 | 1,341 | 0 | ||
| Peak 4330 | 1,319 | 0 | ||
| Kaouk Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,309 | 0 | |
| Peak 4225 | 1,287 | 0 | ||
| Kwois Peak | 1,274 | 0 | ||
| Mount Wolfenden | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1273 | 0 | |
| Garibaldi Peaks | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,235 | 0 | |
| Hannah Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,250 | 0 | |
| Twin Peaks | 1,208 | 953 | ||
| Shelbert Mountain | 1,207 | 0 | ||
| Mount Brenton | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,200 | 0 | |
| Mamat Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,161 | 0 | |
| Lukwa Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,142 | 0 | |
| Mount Renwick | 1,139 | 0 | ||
| Mount Gore | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,120 | 0 | |
| Grayback Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,119 | 0 | |
| Carter Peak | 1,097 | 0 | ||
| Comestock Peak | 1,097 | 0 | ||
| Mount Rufus | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,080 | 0 | |
| False Ears | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,063 | 0 | |
| Mount Albemarie | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,040 | 0 | |
| Mount Clark | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,036 | 0 | |
| Mount Benson | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,023 | 668 | |
| Pretty Girl Peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,020 | 0 | |
| Mount Pickering | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 1,006 | 0 | ? |
| Sydney Cone | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 996 | 0 | ? |
| Mount Seaton | 957 | 0 | ? | |
| Mount Crespi | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 920 | 0 | ? |
| Mount Lombard | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 920 | 0 | ? |
| Unnamed peak | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 920 (est.) | ? | ? |
| Nunatak Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 909 | 0 | Refugium |
| Saxifrage Mountain | 800 | 0 | ? | |
| Doom Mountain | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 762 | 0 | Refugium |
| Mount Finlayson | Script error: No such module "Coordinates". | 419 | 249 | Gowlland |
See also
Sources
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
References
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- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1". p 1 (and see map at p 2 for area of Vancouver Island Ranges) Template:ISBN
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ see Elms, p 17-29 for the sources of this section
- ↑ Stone
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
External links
Script error: No such module "Side box".
- Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia, Vancouver Island Ranges
- Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".