Mount Cronin is a
mountain
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in the
Babine Range
The Babine Range is a small subrange of the Skeena Mountains of the Interior Mountains, located between Babine Lake, Babine River, Bulkey River and Skeena River in northern British Columbia, Canada.
Mountains
Mountains within the Babine Range ...
of the
Skeena Mountains
The Skeena Mountains, also known as the Skeenas, are a subrange of the Interior Mountains of northern British Columbia, Canada, essentially flanking the upper basin of the Skeena River. They lie just inland from the southern end of the Boundary ...
in northern
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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, located at the head of
Cronin Creek in
Babine Mountains Provincial Park just northeast of
Smithers
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People
* Alan Smithers (born 1938) ...
. It has a prominence of , created by the
Harold Price-Fulton Pass, making it one of
Canada's Ultra peaks. The mountain was named after James Cronin, who operated a mine on this mountain in the 19th century.
References
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Skeena Mountains
Range 5 Coast Land District
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