Mount Downton

Mount Downton, the highest summit in the Itcha Range of British Columbia’s Central Interior, stands within Itcha Ilgachuz Provincial Park near Anahim Lake. The range is part of the Anahim Volcanic Belt, a west-to-east chain of volcanoes formed as the North American Plate moved over the Anahim hotspot, in a process likened to the creation of the Hawaiian Islands. Nearby volcanic ranges include the Rainbow Range and Ilgachuz Range. The mountain is named for Geoffrey M. Downton, a British Columbia land surveyor also remembered by Downton Lake and for first recognizing in 1912 the hydroelectric potential created by the elevation difference between the Bridge River and Seton Lake.

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