Vancouver Island Mountains Map

Click to open a full sized version of the map. During stormy months, the section between sproat lake and. South island cowichan southern gulf islands nanaimo to campbell river pacific rim north island sunshine coast.

Those mountains highlighted in red indicate that they have received a winter ascent. The exposed top of a submerged mountain range, the island stretches for 460km from charmingly sophisticated victoria in the southwest to cape scott’s windswept beaches and rugged headlands at its northern tip. As observed on the map, the two major mountain ranges in british columbia province are the rugged coast mountains on the western part of the province and the rocky mountains (canadian rockies.

The geological survey of canada refers to vancouver island, haida gwaii, and the alaska panhandle as t…

The bc geographic names office is at the bc heritage branch. Crown mountain (elk river mountains) 1846 m. Regarded as cokely and arrowsmith separately, once a thriving ski destination in decades past, the area offers endless hiking trails and scenery and alpine beauty as seen nowhere else. The terms vancouver island alps' has come into use in the last few years but officially, on the map, they are the 'vancouver island ranges'.