Mount Saugstad is a

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in the northernmost

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of the

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in the Central Coast region of

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. It is located just south of the community of

Hagensborg Hagensborg, originally named Kristiania, is a unincorporated community in the Bella Coola Valley in British Columbia, Canada. Its census population in 2021 was 273. History Augsburg Church built in 1904 in Hagensborg The Bella Coola Valley wa ...

in the

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and is immediately southeast of Snootli Peak and also southeast of Big Snow Mountain. The Smitley River has its origins on the west side of the summit at the Saugstad Glacier, which is at

Name origin

Mount Saugstad was named for the Reverend Christian Saugstad, the leader of a Norwegian colony in

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who was encouraged to move the colony to Bella Coola by settler B.F. Jacobsen, who had moved to the area prior to 1890. The Reverend Saugstad was the pastor of the local congregation until his death in 1897.

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to the southeast was named for B.F. Jacobsen, as was the adjacent West Jacobsen Peak in the same massif following suit.BC Names/GeoBC entry "West Jacobsen Peak"
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* Mt. Saugstad (photo)
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