Bastille Mountain

British Columbia. Mountain
Just inside BC-Alberta boundary, N of Intersection Mountain
53.8722 N 120.0272 W — Map 093H16 — GoogleGeoHack
Name officially adopted in 1925
Official in BCCanada

Named by Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission surveyors in 1923, presumably referring to the impregnable aspect of the feature; an extremely steep shale slope extends almost 5 km from Bastille Mountain to Wallbridge Mountain.

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