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Overlander Mountain is a 2,687-metre summit in Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, in the Selwyn Range of the Canadian Rockies. Rising about 1,850 metres above the Fraser River valley in just 4 kilometres, it is a striking landmark visible from the park visitor centre, with the Yellowhead Highway and Canadian National Railway passing its northern base. Its runoff reaches tributaries of the Fraser River, and its summit overlooks Robson Valley and surrounding peaks. The name honors the Overlanders expedition of 1862, when 175 men and one woman led by Thomas McMicking passed through the valley en route from Ontario to the Cariboo goldfields.
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