Mount Good Hope

Mount Good Hope
Elevation	3,242 m (10,636 ft)
Prominence	1,497 m (4,911 ft)
Location
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Range	Pacific Ranges
Coordinates	51°08′33″N 124°10′18″W / 51.1425°N 124.17167°W / 51.1425; -124.17167
Topo map	NTS 92N/01
Climbing
First ascent	1922 by R. Bishop and G. Durham
Easiest route	rock/ice climb

Officially Good Hope Mountain but commonly known as Mount Good Hope, this is one of the principal summits of the Pacific Ranges of the southern Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. It stands immediately west of Chilko Lake, with the highest peak on the massif rising between that lake's southern arms.

West of Mount Good Hope is the upper valley of the Southgate River, which drains to Bute Inlet near the mouth of the Homathko River; across the Southgate to the west is the Homathko Icefield, one of the largest icemasses 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 Chile in the Battle of Coronel, November 1, 1914. Other summits within the same massif also carry ship names from World War I, such as Glasgow and Dawn Treader.

See also

• Mountain peaks of Canada
• Mountain peaks of North America

References

• "Good Hope Mountain". BC Geographical Names. http://apps.gov.bc.ca/pub/bcgnws/names/28902.html. 
• Mount Good Hope on Bivouac.com