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 in the southwest flanking Shuswap Lake. In that area of the valley are the towns of Falkland-Westwold and Monte Creek along Highway 97, this area also includes the Spa Hills and the other isolated pockets of hills and mini-plateaus between the Thompson Plateau proper and Shuswap Lake.
The Shuswap Highland is in essence a foothill (or transitional) area between the much broader interior plateaus southwest and west of it, and the mountainous terrain of the northern Monashee and Cariboo Mountains on the east/north-east.
Climates here range from sub-alpine in the mountains, particularly the further north one goes to a semi-arid, more temperate, continental climate that is found around Shuswap Lake.
[edit] References
- S. Holland, Landforms of British Columbia, Province of British Columbia, 1976
- BCGNIS listing "Shuswap Highland"
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