geo.wikisort.org - MountainsThe Interior Mountains or Northern Interior Mountains are the semi-official names for an expansive collection of mountain ranges that comprises much of the northern half of the Canadian province of British Columbia and a large area of southern Yukon.
Group of mountain ranges in British Columbia and Yukon
Not to be confused with other mountains of the British Columbia Interior.
There are four main groupings, the Skeena, Cassiar and Omineca Mountains to the north of the Interior Plateau between the Coast Mountains to the west and the Rocky Mountains to the east, and the Hazelton Mountains along the Interior Plateau's northwestern flank against the Coast Mountains, extending from the Bulkley Ranges south to the Bella Coola River. Included within the Interior Mountains system is the Stikine Plateau, which contains a number of sub-plateaus and various mountain ranges and is located west of the Cassiars, north of the Skeenas, and to the east of the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains.
Most of the thousands of summits in the Interior Mountains are unnamed, and they are mostly uninhabited and undeveloped.
Etymology
The terms Interior Mountains and Northern Interior Mountains were coined by British Columbia government geographer Stuart Holland in the course of writing his Landforms of British Columbia, which is a definitive volume on the province's topography and toponymy written in 1964. This work is used as the basis for official toponymies such as those in the provincial gazette and the British Columbia Geographic Names Information System Database (BCGNIS), which is the official registry of the province's geographic names.
The term Interior Mountains, used by Holland throughout his work and as a chapter heading describing the mountain system in question, is not present in the Geographical Names Database despite being a chapter heading and appearing on Holland's map of the province's landform systems. He suggests, also, the term "Northern Interior Mountains", partly because the mountain system is in a region also known as the Northern Interior, but also to potentially distinguish this mountain system from mountain ranges farther south in the province's Interior, including those of the Interior Plateau. In his exegesis, he decided on "Interior Mountains" for reasons of brevity.
Component ranges and plateaus
Major mountain ranges and plateaus that are considered part of the Interior Mountains are included.
Stikine Plateau
- Kawdy Plateau
- Nahlin Plateau
- Spatsizi Plateau
- Tagish Highland (NB sometimes defined as part of the Coast Mountains)
- Tahltan Highland (NB sometimes defined as part of the Coast Mountains)
- Taku Plateau (NB sometimes defined as part of the Yukon Plateau)
- Tanzilla Plateau
Parks and protected areas
- Boya Lake Provincial Park
- Dall River Old Growth Provincial Park
- Denetiah Provincial Park
- Dune Za Keyih Provincial Park and Protected Area
- Horneline Creek Provincial Park
- Hyland River Provincial Park
- Kinaskan Lake Provincial Park
- Mount Edziza Provincial Park and Recreation Area
- Rainbow Alley Provincial Park
- Spatsizi Plateau Wilderness Provincial Park
- Stikine River Provincial Park
- Todagin South Slope Provincial Park
- Tuya Mountains Provincial Park
Proposed protected areas
See also
References
- S. Holland, Landforms of British Columbia, Province of British Columbia, 1976
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[de] Interior Mountains
Die Interior Mountains, auch Northern Interior Mountains, sind eine 680 km lange und etwa 250 km breite Gebirgsketten der nördlichen Intermontane Plateaus in Nordamerika, die zum größten Teil in der zentralen kanadischen Provinz British Columbia und zu einem kleinen Teil im südlichen Yukon liegen. Sie grenzen im Norden an das Yukon Plateau und die Mackenzie Mountains, im Osten komplett an die kanadischen Rocky Mountains, im Süden liegt das Interior Plateau und im Westen liegen auf ganzer Länge die Coast Mountains der pazifischen Küstengebirge.
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[fr] Montagnes Intérieures
Les montagnes Intérieures (en anglais : Interior Mountains), parfois appelées chaînons Intérieurs (en anglais : Interior Ranges), sont un ensemble de massifs montagneux dans la moitié septentrionale de la Colombie-Britannique et dans le Sud du Yukon, au Canada. Ils sont situés à l'est de la chaîne Côtière, à l'ouest des Rocheuses canadiennes et au nord du plateau Intérieur. La région est très peu peuplée.
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