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23-755: Northwest across Mosley Creek is the Pantheon Range and due west is the Waddington Range and south of that is the Whitemantle Range ; further northwest is the Klinaklini Icefield , beyond the river of the same name . To the southeast across the great Grand Canyon of the Homathko is the Homathko Icefield , east of which beyond the area of Mount Queen Bess is Tsy'los Provincial Park . Just below

46-693: A mountain, mountain range, or peak in British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a location on the Coast of British Columbia , Canada is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Pacific Ranges The Pacific Ranges are the southernmost subdivision of the Coast Mountains portion of the Pacific Cordillera . Located entirely within British Columbia, Canada , they run northwest from

69-715: Is located between the edge of the Chilcotin Plateau at Tatla Lake on its northeast and the Klinaklini River on its west, with a southeastern boundary along Mosley Creek, a major tributary of the Homathko River . The range is 5,550 km (2,140 sq mi) in area and extremely rugged, with many sharp, glaciated peaks. As is shown in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia map, the Pantheon Range

92-453: Is north of the Waddington and Niut Ranges, which corresponds with the official 1:50,000 maps. The range's highest summits are Mount Vishnu 3,008 m (9,869 ft), Mount Astarte 2,959 m (9,708 ft) and Mount Zeus 2,982 m (9,783 ft). Most of the range's peaks have names of gods or other deities, e.g. Thoth, Hermes, Polyphemus, etc. - hence the name. Immediately south of

115-656: Is the Ha-Iltzuk Icefield , which is the largest of the coastal icecaps of the southern Coast Mountains , larger than the Waddington Range 's complex of glaciers and peaks or the Homathko Icefield . North of the Pantheon Range is the northwestern end of the Chilcotin Ranges while farther north, beyond the head of the Klinaklini , is the Rainbow Range , which lies on the Chilcotin Plateau . This article related to

138-490: The Homathko and its tributaries would have generated some of the most power-per-project in British Columbia using the extra power of the water from the Chilcotin 's tributaries,. The creation of Tsʼilʔos Provincial Park (the 'ʔ' represents a glottal stop ) and Big Creek Provincial Park have shelved the grand plan, as Chilko and Taseko Lakes are protected and cannot be diverted (also for salmon fishery reasons ). But

161-466: The Pantheon Range is the much higher Waddington Range , home to the highest peak in the Coast Mountains , Mount Waddington , and to the south of that is the Whitemantle Range . Southeast across Mosley Creek, the main west fork of the Homathko River , is the Niut Range , while south of it across the Homathko River is the Homathko Icefield and its attendant ranges. West across the Klinaklini River

184-535: The Silverthrone Caldera , which lie 140 and 190 km northwest of the main volcanic belt. The Cascadia subduction zone is a 680 mi (1,094 km) long fault , running 50 mi (80 km) off the west-coast of the Pacific Northwest from northern California to Vancouver Island . The plates move at a relative rate of over 0.4 inches (10 mm) per year at a somewhat oblique angle to

207-540: The United States (which includes the volcanoes Mount St. Helens and Mount Baker ) and contains the most explosive young volcanoes in Canada. The eruption styles in the belt range from effusive to explosive , with compositions from basalt to rhyolite . Morphologically, centers include calderas , cinder cones , stratovolcanoes and small isolated lava masses. Due to repeated continental and alpine glaciations, many of

230-441: The Waddington Range these are also considered to be " ranges " but are listed separately here because of their unique character). List is incomplete Some Protected areas, recreation areas and other non-park preservation areas are not listed. Many relatively unknown rivers of considerable size along the coastal flank of the range are not listed, partly because they are largely unknown and also very difficult to access. For

253-563: The 20th Century by BC Hydro, the province's Crown-owned power monopoly. The Homathko by itself has immense hydroelectric potential, but full build-out as first conceived would divert the Taseko Lakes and Chilko Lake into the Homathko system via Tatlayoko Lake . Other than those diversions, which would deplete the Chilcotin River and its contribution to the Fraser , a series of dams on

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276-618: The Cascade Range contributes to further obscuring the presence of a trench. However, in common with most other subduction zones, the outer margin is slowly being compressed, similar to a giant spring . When the stored energy is suddenly released by slippage across the fault at irregular intervals, the Cascadia subduction zone can create very large earthquakes , such as the 8.7–9.2 M w   Cascadia earthquake of 1700 . Many smaller ranges and subranges are not listed at present. (Other than

299-874: The Lillooet, Bridge River and Squamish areas, and large pulp and paper mills at Powell River, Port Mellon and Woodfibre. The largest hydroelectric development in the Pacific Ranges is the Bridge River Power Project , though smaller hydro plants are on the Stave River-Alouette Lake system in Mission and Maple Ridge, the Daisy Lake-Squamish River division of the Cheakamus Powerhouse, and another power dam and power plant at Clowhom . Although

322-517: The confluence of Mosley Creek and the Homathko River , at the southern foot of the Niut Range, the bullying of a party of Tsilhqot'in First Nations warriors hired to help build an enterprise known as Waddington's Road led to their massacre of the road company's workers and the opening of hostilities between a faction of the Chilcotin people and the colonial government of British Columbia . This

345-651: The failed road contract was later considered for the mainline of the Canadian Pacific Railway , to connect to Vancouver Island via Seymour Narrows to connect to Victoria , but Burrard Inlet was chosen for the railway's terminus-port city instead, thereby creating the City of Vancouver . Attention to the route's possibilities waned since being eyed by the CPR but plans to develop the Homathko and its neighbouring rivers for hydroelectric power have been considered throughout

368-544: The highest summit entirely within British Columbia . Also within this region is Hunlen Falls , among the highest in Canada , located in Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park . Other than logging and various hydroelectric developments, and a large ski resort at Whistler , most of the land in the range is completely undeveloped. Historically, in the southern part of the range, mining was important at various times in

391-553: The hydroelectric potential of the Homathko Canyon are still on the books and are to be developed as run-of-the-river project by Plutonic Power , a subsidiary of General Electric . 51°34′00″N 124°38′00″W  /  51.56667°N 124.63333°W  / 51.56667; -124.63333 Pantheon Range The Pantheon Range is a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia . It

414-657: The lower stretches of the Fraser River to Bella Coola and Burke Channel , north of which are the Kitimat Ranges . The Coast Mountains lie between the Interior Plateau and the Coast of British Columbia . The Pacific Ranges include four of the five major coastal icecaps in the southern Coast Mountains . These are the largest temperate-latitude icecaps in the world and fuel a number of very major rivers (by volume, not length). One of these contains Mount Waddington ,

437-629: The past 4 million years, which has led to relatively high rates of erosion . The Garibaldi Volcanic Belt is within the Pacific Ranges, which is a volcanic belt formed by the subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate (a remnant of the much larger Farallon Plate ) under the North American Plate along the Cascadia subduction zone . The belt is the northern extension of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in

460-644: The range was extensively surveyed for possible rail routes, only that of the Pacific Great Eastern (now part of CN) was eventually built; the Homathko River-Bute Inlet route, however, was one of the two main choices in the deliberations of the CPR's routing. The Pacific Ranges are part of the southern portion of the Coast Plutonic Complex and has been characterized by rapid rates of uplift over

483-408: The subduction zone. Unlike most subduction zones worldwide, there is no oceanic trench present along the continental margin in Cascadia . Instead, terranes and the accretionary wedge have been uplifted to form a series of coast ranges and exotic mountains. A high rate of sedimentation from the outflow of the three major rivers ( Fraser River , Columbia River , and Klamath River ) which cross

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506-604: The volcanic deposits in the belt reflect complex interactions between magma composition, topography, and changing ice configurations. The most recent major catastrophic eruption in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt was from the Mount Meager massif 2,350 BP , which is Canada's most recent major catastrophic eruption. The Garibaldi Volcanic Belt contains two extra volcanic fields, the Franklin Glacier Complex and

529-460: Was the opening round of the Chilcotin War of 1864. The land-surveyed townsite of Port Waddington on today's maps is a relic of those times. the townsite had been surveyed as part of the roadbuilders Alfred Waddington ' obligations in having the licence in building the road, as well as profit from the sale of lots (and some lots were sold, but the townsite never came to anything). The route of

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