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Mount Selwyn (Misinchinka Ranges)

Coordinates: 55°59′30″N 123°36′24″W / 55.99167°N 123.60667°W / 55.99167; -123.60667
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Mount Selwyn
Mount Selwyn is located in British Columbia
Mount Selwyn
Mount Selwyn
Mount Selwyn is located in Canada
Mount Selwyn
Mount Selwyn
Mount Selwyn (Canada)
Highest point
Elevation2,291 m (7,516 ft)
Prominence950 m (3,120 ft)
Parent peakMount Crysdale
Coordinates55°59′30″N 123°36′24″W / 55.99167°N 123.60667°W / 55.99167; -123.60667
Geography
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
DistrictCariboo Land District
Parent rangeMisinchinka Ranges
Topo mapNTS 93O13 Mount Selwyn

Mount Selwyn, is a 2,291-metre (7,516-feet) mountain in the Miscinchinka Ranges of the Hart Ranges in Northern British Columbia.[1]

Mount Selwyn is named for A.R.C. Selwyn, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada 1869-95. In 1875 he took an expedition up the Peace River to see if a mountain there could be as incredibly precipitous a cone as an English illustrator of W.F. Butler's The Wild North Land had made it. He found that the mountain was indeed an impressive one but not at all like the artist had shown it. At the suggestion of Professor John Macoun, the expedition's botanist, the mountain was named for Selwyn.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Mount Selwyn". PeakVisor.com. Retrieved 26 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Mount Selwyn". BC Geographical Names.