Talk:Interior Mountains
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As a former resident of this part of B.C. (Kelowna, Vernon, Lumby, Armstrong), we called it The Interior, not "Interior Mountains". In fact, we were talking about the valleys where we lived, not the mountains, but nevertheless, the term "Interior Mountains" is not used in the region.
If you want to be geographical in your descriptions then you should be talking about mountain ranges because B.C. is characterised by a series of north-south ranges from the Coastal Range to the Rockies at the edge of the Prairies. Between each range are north-south valleys named by the river which drains them. There are a couple of east-west faults cutting across SOME of these ranges, i.e. the Fraser River valley and the Thompson River valley. The only thing that distinguishes these so-called Interior Mountains is the fact that they include all mountain ranges except the Coastal Range.
I suggest that the page be renamed to B.C. Mountain ranges and that it explain the north-south character of them. It should also include the Nicola Plateau even though it is not a mountain range per se.
- There is no officially-named Nicola Plateau, although there is the Nicola Valley aka the Nicola Country; the name for the plateau in that area is the Thompson Plateau, which as you can see already has an article.Skookum1 20:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
A reasonable alternate approach would be to rename it Interior Region if the intent is to describe more than the geography.
- See below for my reply to the same questions; of course the term "Interior Mountains" is not used in the Okanagan, as the Interior Mountains are from the Omineca Country northwards (well, nearer the Coast Mountains from the northwesternmost Chilcotin northwards...). It's an "official" name used by government geographers, which is why the title was chosen; I prefer "Northern Interior Mountains" and quite frankly I wish S. Holland or whomever had come up with a term to combine the Cassiars, Ominecas and Skeenas in one super-range, but no one ever did, other than "Interior Mountains". Oh, and please sign your posts with four tildes, even if you don't have an account/username.Skookum1 20:15, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Also, I've been putting off creating a page for "The Interior"; links for Interior currently go to Interior Plateau, which ain't right, and I patrol pages for usages of small-i interior where it should be capitalized (as most people from BC, and most newcomers here, don't realize that). I think the title of such an article will have to be "Interior of British Columbia" as just plain "Interior" or "The Interior" would seem to have to be a disambig page, or a ref to Wiktionary.Skookum1 20:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] What an odd page...
There is a great example page (Monashee Mountains) for one of B.C.'s Interior Mountain Ranges that could be followed for the other ones listed, although I question the level of detail in the list of ranges shown. Is there a point in drilling down to such a level of detail?
Also, even though there is excessive detail, the list does not include the Monashees, the Purcells, the Selkirks. Also, for some odd reason it excludes the Rockies although these are clearly an Interior Mountain range. Perhaps it pays too much attention to provincial borders. A page on geography (i.e. mountain ranges) should not worry that the Rocky Mountains are not wholly in B.C., or in Canada for that matter. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.152.136.95 (talk) 19:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC).
Well, whoever 81.152.136.95 is, what I can tell you is that "Interior Mountains" is an "official" designation, created/enshrined by S. Holland in Landforms of British Columbia, a BC govt publication from the 1970s in most BC libraries (SFU has about 20 copies, at least), which sets out the various range defintions and their groupings. The Monashees, Purcells, and Selkirks are part of the Columbia Mountains, which also in some classifications includes the Cariboo Mountains as well as the Okanagan, Quesnel and Shuswap Highlands (nominally part of the Interior Plateau). The name "Interior Mountains" isn't meant to mean "mountains in the Interior"; I prefer the term Northern Interior Mountains but no one else that I know of has used it, except in casual speech/writing; why the Hazelton Mountains aren't included in the Coast Mountains I'm not sure, also, but all mountain range classifications being built here are based in S. Holland, which is also used by http://bivouac.com as well as http://www.peakbagger.com, the two main online "authorities" (and I was the one who built most of bivouac's system, in fact, using S. Holland). I'll add a qualifier to the intro that the name does not mean "mountains in the Interior", but is a name for the mountains of the Northern Interior (everything north of the Nechako/McGregor Plateaus, but excluding the Northern Rockies).Skookum1 20:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
