Officially Good Hope Mountain but commonly known as Mount Good Hope is one of the principal summits of the

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of the southern Coast Mountains in

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, Canada. It stands immediately west of Chilko Lake, with the highest peak on the massif rising between the lake's southern arms. West of Mount Good Hope is the upper valley of the Southgate River, which drains to

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near the mouth of the

Homathko River The Homathko River is one of the major rivers of the southern Coast Mountains of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is one of the few rivers that penetrates the range from the interior Chilcotin Country to the coastal inlets of the P ...

; across the Southgate to the west is the

Homathko Icefield The Homathko Icefield is an icefield in British Columbia, Canada. Officially named the Homathko Snowfield from 1950 until the current name was adopted in 1976, it is one of the largest icefields in the southern half of the Coast Mountains, with an ...

, one of the largest ice-masses in the Coast Mountains. To Good Hope's south is the Bishop River, a tributary of the Southgate River, beyond which is Mount Raleigh. West of the pass between the Southgate River and Chilko Lake, and north of the Homathko Icefield, is a ridge crowned by Mount Queen Bess. Its name is not directly from the Cape of Good Hope but rather from a ship named for it, the armoured cruiser HMS ''Good Hope'' which sank off the coast of

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in the

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, November 1, 1914. Other summits within the same massif also carry ship names from World War I, such as ''Glasgow'' and ''Dawn Treader''.

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