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Mount Ulysses, is the highest mountain in the Muskwa Ranges of the Northern Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. It and neighbouring peaks are part of a group of names drawing on the epic poem The Odyssey, in which here Ulysses wanders for 10 years before being able to return home to Ithaca.[5]

Mount Ulysses
Mount Ulysses
Highest point
Elevation3,024 m (9,921 ft)[1][2]
Prominence2,289 m (7,510 ft)[1][3]
Listing
  • Mountains of British Columbia
  • North America prominent peak 54th
  • North America isolated peaks 42nd
  • Canada highest major peaks 67th
  • Canada prominent peaks 21st
  • Canada most isolated peaks 15th
Coordinates57°20′47″N 124°5′34″W[4]
Geography
CountryCanada
ProvinceBritish Columbia
DistrictPeace River Land District
Parent rangeMuskwa Ranges
Topo mapNTS 94F8 Cyclops Peak[4]
Climbing
First ascentAugust 16, 1961[1]

Located north of the headwaters of the Akie River and to the south of Sikanni Chief Lake,[5] its very high prominence of 2,289 m (7,510 ft) is relative to Grand Pacific Pass, with its parent peak being an unnamed summit in the Fairweather Range, near Mount Fairweather.[1]

It was first climbed in 1961.[1]


See also



References


  1. "Mount Ulysses". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
  2. "Topographic map of Ulysses Mountain". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  3. "British Columbia and Alberta: The Ultra-Prominence Page". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  4. "Mount Ulysses". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2021-05-31.
  5. "Ulysses, Mount". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2018-03-06.



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Ulysses Mountain[1], aussi appelée mont Ulysse (Mount Ulysses en anglais)[2],[3], est un sommet de Colombie-Britannique, au Canada. Avec 3 024 mètres d'altitude, c'est le point culminant des Chaînons Muskwa (en) et de la partie septentrionale des Rocheuses canadiennes. Il a été gravi pour la première fois le 16 août 1961 par L. Scott Arighi, Arthur Maki et Robert West.



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