Nestor Peak

Nestor Peak is a 2,972-metre summit in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in British Columbia’s Mitchell Range of the Canadian Rockies. Near Ferro Pass and west of the Continental Divide, it has strikingly steep relief, rising sharply above the Simpson River and Nestor Lake. Its runoff drains to the Simpson River on the north, Surprise Creek on the west, and by Ferro and Nestor creeks into the Mitchell River on the south and east. Named in 1916 after HMS Nestor, lost at the Battle of Jutland, the name was officially adopted in 1960. The peak consists of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny.

British Columbia · Canada