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Mount Yarrell

  • 2271 m (7,450ft)
  • Naming History
49.0806N -114.269W
Located in the Kishinena Creek Valley

Province: BC
Headwater: Flathead
Year Named: 1858
Named by: Thomas Blakiston
Named for: Yarrell, ?? (Mr. Yarrell was a geologist (1785-1856).)

Mount Yarrell is shown on John Palliser's map and the name would likely have been chosen by Thomas Blakiston. As well, it is shown on George Dawson's 1886 map. Dawson's August 15, 1874 journal entry reads, "Looking westward - the valley of the pass is seen to run S.W. between two splendid mountain masses, of which the tops are covered with snow, & which were at once recognisable as Mts Kerby&Spence, and Mt Yarrel of Blackistons map." [Bruce Haig's www.ourhertiage.net] Mount Kirby & Spence is shown on both maps to the south of Mount Yarrell. Kirby & Spence were early 19th century British entomologists [Tony Rees]. The names are not in use today but it seems likely they were applied to the mountains now known as Starvation Peak and King Edward Peak.