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Mount Logan, a one thousand one hundred fifty-metre peak in Quebec’s Chic-Choc Mountains, is the highest point in Bas-Saint-Laurent and a striking landmark above the Saint Lawrence shore. Named in eighteen ninety-eight for geologist William Edmond Logan, it was first reached by recorded Europeans in July eighteen forty-four during his Gaspé exploration. Its sheer northern escarpment, ancient Lower Ordovician rocks, harsh climate, and resistant geology have shaped both its dramatic relief and unusual habitats. The mountain supports rare plants, caribou, and Bicknell’s thrush, and Merritt Lyndon Fernald’s nineteen twenty-three expedition established it as one of the Gaspé highlands’ most important botanical sites.
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