Naiset Point

Naiset Point is a 2,755-metre summit in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in British Columbia’s Canadian Rockies, near Lake Magog and along a ridge extending north from Terrapin Mountain. It is composed of sedimentary rock deposited in shallow Cambrian seas, then later uplifted and thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny that helped form this part of the Rockies. The Interprovincial Boundary Survey named it in 1913 from naiset, translated from a First Nations word for sunset. Its first recorded ascent came in 1920, and the Geographical Names Board of Canada officially adopted the name in 1924. The mountain lies in a subarctic climate with runoff draining to Lake Magog.

British Columbia · Canada