Talk:Vancouver Island Ranges
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[edit] To Do
Need to update List of mountain ranges KenWalker | Talk 07:25, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Added many peaks. The list is too long. I suppose is should be a separate list for each range, but the list is a pretty good selection of the peaks on Vancouver Island by height as it is. KenWalker | Talk 07:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Range map
I made up the range map as requested; one thing that's different about the Island is that most of the ranges are small, and some things called "Ridges" and "Highlands" are actually larger than some of the ranges. So it's not like the Mainland - where even so there's still large areas that don't have formal local range-names, other than the big subdivisions (e.g. Pacific Ranges). So what you see is what you get with this map. Typically these ranges were named in the marine exploration era, and so are the ones visible from shore, or discernible as distinct ranges from shore anyway; some like the Sophia, Genevieve and Refugium are really hill-ranges, albeit extremely rugged in most cases. The Elk River Mountains are not officially gazetted so I don't have boundaries for them; the boundaries shown are as defined/displayed on Basemap. No. 7 and No. 8 I drew crappy-looking lines to; I have a version saved without the numbering so can redo the numbers, or maybe in this case do actual rangenames...although with that cluster on the North Island/Johnstone Strait area I'd still have to make arrow-lines....Skookum1 04:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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.Skookum1 04:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
This is the unnumbered version, in case you'd like to fool around with it- PS just remembered I didn't make a number-key but I'll leave you to figure it out, or I'll do it when I come home; gotta not miss the bus now that I've decided to go....Skookum1 05:03, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
- OK, here's the key (the movie was The Fountain....)
- Refugium Range
- Sophia Range
- Genevieve Range
- Karmutzen Range
- Hankin Range
- Franklin Range (prob named after Sir John)
- Bonanza Range
- Sutton Range
- Newcastle Range (prob named for Duke of Newcastle)
- Prince of Wales Range (prob George IV rather than Edward VII)
- Halifax Range ( prob named for a Lord Halifax, not the city)
- Beaufort Range
- Pelham Range
- Somerset Range (prob named for a Lord Somerset)
- Seymour Range (low but nasty; named for the Gov posthumously)
- Gowlland Range (Mount Work Provincial Park)
- Pierce Range
- Haihte Range —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Skookum1 (talk • contribs) 08:19, 24 January 2007 (UTC).
I should probably re-do the map, as I missed the Pierce and Haihte Ranges numbers; I'd been trying to go NW-SE in sequence but noticed them after numbering and while labelling the others; nos. 17 and 18.Skookum1 08:24, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
