Purcell Mountains
The Purcell Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. They are a subrange of the Columbia Mountains, which includes the Selkirk, Monashee, and Cariboo Mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Battle Brook, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Mountain range with an elevation of 2,106 metres
- Description: Subrange of the Columbia Mountains in Canada and the United States
- Also known as: “Percell Mountains”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Farnham.
Mount Farnham
Peak
Photo: Eternalsleeper, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Farnham is British Columbia's 17th highest peak, and 21st most prominent. It was named after Paulding Farnham from New York. It is the highest peak in the Purcells.
Purcell Mountains
- Category: landform
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
50.5° or 50° 30′ northLongitude
-116.5° or 116° 30′ westElevation
2,106 metres (6,909 feet)Open location code
9525GG22+22OpenStreetMap ID
node 5793383253OpenStreetMap feature
natural=mountain_range
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Venetian—“Purcell Mountains” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Purcell mendiak”
- Catalan: “Purcell Mountains”
- Cebuano: “Purcell Mountains”
- Chinese: “普塞爾山脈”
- Czech: “Purcell Mountains”
- Czech: “Purcellovo pohoří”
- Dutch: “Purcell Mountains”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال بورسيل”
- French: “chaîne Purcell”
- French: “Chaîne Purcell”
- German: “Percell Mountains”
- German: “Purcell Mountains”
- Japanese: “パーセル山脈”
- Ladin: “Purcell Mountains”
- Persian: “کوه پرسل”
- Polish: “Purcell Mountains”
- Slovenian: “Purcellovo gorovje”
- Spanish: “Montañas Purcell”
- Swedish: “Purcell Mountains (bergskedja i Kanada)”
- Swedish: “Purcell Mountains”
- Ukrainian: “Перселл (хребет)”
- Ukrainian: “Перселл”
- Venetian: “Monti Purcell”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Farnham Ridge and Farnham Tower.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Purcell Mountains”. Photo: Battle Brook, CC BY 2.0.