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Quesnel Highland | |
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 Approximate boundary of the Quensel Highland | |
| Coordinates:52°30′00″N121°00′00″W / 52.50000°N 121.00000°W /52.50000; -121.00000 | |
| Location | British Columbia,Canada |
| Part of | Cariboo Mountains andCariboo Plateau |
TheQuesnel Highland is a geographic area in theCentral Interior of theCanadian province ofBritish Columbia.[1] As defined by BC government geographer inLandforms of British Columbia, an account and analysis of British Columbia geography that is often cited as authoritative, the Highland is a complex of upland hill and plateau areas forming and defined as being the buffer between theCariboo Plateau and theCariboo Mountains, as a sort of highland foothills along the eastern edge of theInterior Plateau running southeast from a certain point southeast of the city ofPrince George to theMahood Lake area at the southeast corner of theCariboo.[2] Beyond Mahood Lake lies another separately classified area dubbed by Holland theShuswap Highland which spans similar terrain across the North Thompson and Shuswap Lake-Adams Riverdrainage basins, forming a similar upland-area buffer between the Thompson Plateau and the Monashee Mountains. A third area, theOkanagan Highland, extends from the southern end of theShuswap Highland in the area ofVernon andEnderby in the northernOkanagan region into Washington State, and also abuts theMonashee Mountains .
The boundary of the Quesnel Highland is not precisely defined in Holland, and in some interpretations it may be considered to be part of theInterior Plateau, as Holland defines it, or as a subrange of theCariboo Mountains. Those mountains also, in some reckonings, are classified as part of theInterior Plateau rather than their usual association as the northernmost subrange of theColumbia Mountains. Generally it is composed of the lower, westerly valleys ofHorsefly Lake,Quesnel Lake, and theBowron Lakes, most of theCariboo goldfield towns and similar terrain northwestwards, to about where the Willow River rounds the northern end of theCariboo Mountains to join theFraser River.
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