Mount Selwyn (Misinchinka Ranges) facts for kids

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Mount Selwyn Location in British Columbia Show map of British Columbia Mount Selwyn Location in Canada Show map of Canada
Highest point
Elevation	2,291 m (7,516 ft)
Prominence	950 m (3,120 ft)
Parent peak	Mount Crysdale
Geography
Location	British Columbia, Canada
Parent range	Misinchinka Ranges
Topo map	NTS 093O/13

Mount Selwyn, is a 2,291-metre (7,516-feet) mountain in the Miscinchinka Ranges of the Hart Ranges in Northern British Columbia.

Mount Selwyn is named for A.R.C. Selwyn, Director of the Geological Survey of Canada 1869-95. In 1875 he took an expedition up the Peace River to see if a mountain there could be as incredibly precipitous a cone as an English illustrator of W.F. Butler's The Wild North Land had made it. He found that the mountain was indeed an impressive one but not at all like the artist had shown it. At the suggestion of Professor John Macoun, the expedition's botanist, the mountain was named for Selwyn.