Shuswap Highland

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The Shuswap Highland is a plateau-like hilly area in British Columbia, Canada. It spans the upland area between the Bonaparte and Thompson Plateaus from the area of Mahood Lake, at the southeast corner of the Cariboo Plateau, southeast towards the lower Shuswap River east of Vernon in the Okanagan. The highland is not a unified range but a combination of small uplands broken up by the valleys of the Clearwater, North Thompson and Adams Rivers and also be the lowlands flanking and southwest of Shuswap Lake. Its southwestern edge in that area is the valley of Falkland-Westwold and Monte Creek used by Highway 97, and so including the Spa Hills and the other isolated hills and plateaus between the Thompson Plateau proper and Shuswap Lake.

The Shuswap Highland is the equivalent of a foothill area between the broader plateaus southwest and west of it, and the more severe alpine of the northern Monashee and Cariboo Mountains, which together are part of the Columbia Mountains. In some reckonings, the Shuswap Highland may be considered to be part of the Monashees and Cariboos, in others it may be considered part of the respective plateau areas adjoining it to the southwest.

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S. Holland, Landforms of British Columbia, Province of British Columbia, 1976