Mount Lloyd George

Mount Lloyd George
Mount Lloyd George is located in British Columbia
Mount Lloyd George
Mount Lloyd George
Location in British Columbia
Map
Interactive map of Mount Lloyd George
Highest point
Elevation2,938 m (9,639 ft)[1]
Prominence1,208 m (3,963 ft)[1]
Parent peakMount Sylvia
ListingMountains of British Columbia
Coordinates57°53′44″N 124°59′53″W / 57.895556°N 124.998056°W / 57.895556; -124.998056[2]
Geography
CountryCanada
ProvinceBritish Columbia
DistrictPeace River Land District
Parent range
Topo mapNTS 94F15 Mount Lloyd George[2]
Climbing
First ascent17 July 1947, Noel Odell, Frank Smythe, Henry S. Hall Jr, Rex Gibson, John H. Ross, David Wessel[3][4]

Mount Lloyd George is a 2,938-metre (9,639 ft) peak in British Columbia, Canada, rising to a prominence of 1,208 metres (3,963 ft) above Lloyd George Pass. The mountain is located NE of Haworth Lake in Kwadacha Wilderness Provincial Park.[5] Its line parent is Mount Sylvia, 37 kilometres (23 mi) away. It is part of the Northern Rocky Mountains.[1]

Geology

Lying in the Muskwa Ranges, Mount Lloyd George is a castellated limestone and quartzite peak.[6] The diamictite sedimentary deposits of the mountain, several kilometers thick, date to the late Precambrian and probably have a glacial-marine origin.[7] The age of the diamictite is not certain. It may be associated with either the Toby or the Vreeland formations of the North American Cordillera.[8]

Ice field

The Lloyd George Icefield in 1998 covered over 70 square kilometres (27 sq mi).[9] There is a major concentration of glaciers around the mountain. The icefield is about 19 kilometres (12 mi) from north to south and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from east to west, bounded by the Warneford River and the Tuchodi River. The small Llanberis Glacier flows west from the icefield to Hawarth Lake. The larger Kwadacha and Lloyd George glaciers drain the icefield to the east.[10]

Name

The mountain was named by Paul Leland Haworth after David Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister towards the end of World War I. In the words of Raymond M. Patterson,

It has been said, and with some truth, that the Rockies are the worst named mountain system in the world... Haworth, in a fit of wartime enthusiasm, decided to suggest that one further alien name be added to the ill-assorted register: as soon as he got out he would propose to Ottawa that the high mountain he had seen that day, holding the Great Glacier in its lap, should be called Mount Lloyd George. With regrettable haste his suggestion was adopted. Time and the verdict of history have not added to the stature of the little Welsh politician.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c Mount Lloyd George - Bivouac.com.
  2. ^ a b "Mount Lloyd George". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  3. ^ Smythe, Frank S. (1948). "An expedition to the Lloyd George Mountains of North-East British Columbia" (PDF). Alpine Journal. #56: 354–359. ISSN 0065-6569. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  4. ^ Hall, Henry S. Jr. (1948). "Lloyd George Mountains: First Ascents". American Alpine Journal. #7: 19–24. ISSN 0065-6925. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Mount Lloyd George". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
  6. ^ US Geological Survey 1998, p. 1200.
  7. ^ Anderson & Molnia 1989, p. 6.
  8. ^ Arnaud, Halverson & Shields-Zhou 2012, p. 421.
  9. ^ US Geological Survey 1998, p. 1275.
  10. ^ US Geological Survey 1998, p. 1277.
  11. ^ Akrigg & Akrigg 1997, p. 155.
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