Mount Brown (British Columbia)

Mount Brown
Elevation	2,791 m (9,157 ft)
Location
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Range	Canadian Rockies
Coordinates	52°23′00″N 118°15′00″W / 52.3833333°N 118.25°W / 52.3833333; -118.25

Mount Brown is a massif in the Canadian Rockies, located to the west of the Athabasca Pass. It was first ascended in 1827 by the naturalist David Douglas, who then wrote that its "height does not seem to be less than 16,000 or 17,000 feet above the level of the sea". This over-estimation of the altitude was widely accepted at the time^[1] leading to the false notion that it was the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains. Douglas named the peak for Robert Brown, the first keeper at the British Museum's botanical gardens.

The southern branch of the Fraser River originates near this mountain.

References

1. ^ Prendergast, F.E. (August 1882). "Canadian Pacific Railway and the New Northwest". Harper's New Monthly Magazine. http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=harp;cc=harp;rgn=full%20text;idno=harp0065-3;didno=harp0065-3;view=image;seq=431;node=harp0065-3%3A1;page=root;size=s;frm=frameset;. Retrieved 2009-11-08. 

External links

• "Mount Brown". BC Geographical Names. http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/1171.html. 
• "Brown, Mount". Place Names in the Canadian Rockies. http://www.spiralroad.com/sr/pn/b/brown_mount.html. Retrieved November 4, 2005.