Mount Swannell, 1821 m (5974 ft),
prominence
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771 m,
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/ref> is a mountain
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in the Fawnie Range of the Nechako Plateau
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in the Central Interior region of British Columbia
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, Canada
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. It is located to the south of the outlet of the Entiako River into Natalkuz Lake, which is part of the Nechako Reservoir
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. The northernmost of the summits of the Fawnie Range and is in the northeastern end of Entiako Provincial Park, it is the only named summit of the Fawnie Range within the park.
Name origin
Mount Swannell, like other similar names in British Columbia, is named for Frank Swannell, a notable British Columbia Land Surveyor who mapped much of the province by foot and horseback in the late 19th and into the mid 20th Century. He mapped this region in the 1920s, producing detailed topographic and trigonometric surveys, leaving such publications as:
See also
* Telegraph Range
* Quanchus Range
References
One-thousanders of British Columbia
Nechako Country
Range 4 Coast Land District
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