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As a former resident of this part of B.C. (Kelowna, Vernon, Lumby, Armstrong), we called it The Interior, not "Interior Mountains". In fact, we were talking about the valleys where we lived, not the mountains, but nevertheless, the term "Interior Mountains" is not used in the region.
If you want to be geographical in your descriptions then you should be talking about mountain ranges because B.C. is characterised by a series of north-south ranges from the Coastal Range to the Rockies at the edge of the Prairies. Between each range are north-south valleys named by the river which drains them. There are a couple of east-west faults cutting across SOME of these ranges, i.e. the Fraser River valley and the Thompson River valley. The only thing that distinguishes these so-called Interior Mountains is the fact that they include all mountain ranges except the Coastal Range.
I suggest that the page be renamed to B.C. Mountain ranges and that it explain the north-south character of them. It should also include the Nicola Plateau even though it is not a mountain range per se.
A reasonable alternate approach would be to rename it Interior Region if the intent is to describe more than the geography.
There is a great example page ( Monashee Mountains) for one of B.C.'s Interior Mountain Ranges that could be followed for the other ones listed, although I question the level of detail in the list of ranges shown. Is there a point in drilling down to such a level of detail?
Also, even though there is excessive detail, the list does not include the Monashees, the Purcells, the Selkirks. Also, for some odd reason it excludes the Rockies although these are clearly an Interior Mountain range. Perhaps it pays too much attention to provincial borders. A page on geography (i.e. mountain ranges) should not worry that the Rocky Mountains are not wholly in B.C., or in Canada for that matter. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.152.136.95 ( talk) 19:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC).
Well, whoever 81.152.136.95 is, what I can tell you is that "Interior Mountains" is an "official" designation, created/enshrined by S. Holland in Landforms of British Columbia, a BC govt publication from the 1970s in most BC libraries (SFU has about 20 copies, at least), which sets out the various range defintions and their groupings. The Monashees, Purcells, and Selkirks are part of the Columbia Mountains, which also in some classifications includes the Cariboo Mountains as well as the Okanagan, Quesnel and Shuswap Highlands (nominally part of the Interior Plateau). The name "Interior Mountains" isn't meant to mean "mountains in the Interior"; I prefer the term Northern Interior Mountains but no one else that I know of has used it, except in casual speech/writing; why the Hazelton Mountains aren't included in the Coast Mountains I'm not sure, also, but all mountain range classifications being built here are based in S. Holland, which is also used by http://bivouac.com as well as http://www.peakbagger.com, the two main online "authorities" (and I was the one who built most of bivouac's system, in fact, using S. Holland). I'll add a qualifier to the intro that the name does not mean "mountains in the Interior", but is a name for the mountains of the Northern Interior (everything north of the Nechako/McGregor Plateaus, but excluding the Northern Rockies). Skookum1 20:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
It was pointed out in an edit by User:Black Tusk that the two terms in the lede are "unofficial", which is to say they do not appear in either BCGNIS or CGNDB, though I amended that to "semi-official" as the mames were coined bya government geographer in a work which is the basis for the official toponymy in BCGNIS. Myself, I would have preferred "Northern Interior Mountains" to avoid confusions of exactly the kind above, but Holland chose to use "Interior Mountains" between the two possible terms and at bivouac.com we decided to follow suit with that, and that has been also followed by www.peakbagger.com. It's for all this that I included a ref/footnote explaining the coining of the terms and their semi-official nature. They are not (as yet) gazetted names although all their component parts are and, as I said in teh footnote, Holland's work is t eh basis for the official toponymy. Various other terms in that book are also not found in BCGNIS, and many in BCGNIS are also not found in CGNDB....(and vice-versa). Skookum1 ( talk) 03:45, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure this is a subrange of the Nass Ranges and should be sectioned/bulleted as such, I'll look into it; similarly the Eaglenest Range is, I think, on the Spatsizi Plateau. Skookum1 ( talk) 02:56, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Looking at the huge parks list, I'm thinking it might be useful to move them individually into the ranges/plateaus where they are located; if they bridge two or more, they should appear in each. Skookum1 ( talk) 02:56, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
In Holland's index, this is a subchapter of Interior Mountains, and of course if pretty much more mountains than it is plateau; the Tagish Highland I think doesn't belong here, I'll work on that in the next edits. Skookum1 ( talk) 03:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
The Interior Mountains are most likely in the Yukon as well if the Cassiar Mountains lie in the Yukon. [1] Black Tusk ( talk) 03:25, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
What is the highest point of the Interior Mountains? I searched for the highest point while searching and I looked through all of the subrange articles but not all have the highest point in the infoboxes. The discription about most its summits being unnamed, mostly uninhabited and undeveloped probably explains why I can't find the highest point. But even if it dosen't have an established name I would think there would be at least an unofficial name, due to the huge size of the region. Black Tusk ( talk) 15:51, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
I am willing to create a template for the Interior Mountains and its subranges if needed. A large mountain range like the Interior Mountains should have at least one mountain template like the Coast Mountains, Canadian Rockies, etc.... Black Tusk ( talk) 18:26, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
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As a former resident of this part of B.C. (Kelowna, Vernon, Lumby, Armstrong), we called it The Interior, not "Interior Mountains". In fact, we were talking about the valleys where we lived, not the mountains, but nevertheless, the term "Interior Mountains" is not used in the region.
If you want to be geographical in your descriptions then you should be talking about mountain ranges because B.C. is characterised by a series of north-south ranges from the Coastal Range to the Rockies at the edge of the Prairies. Between each range are north-south valleys named by the river which drains them. There are a couple of east-west faults cutting across SOME of these ranges, i.e. the Fraser River valley and the Thompson River valley. The only thing that distinguishes these so-called Interior Mountains is the fact that they include all mountain ranges except the Coastal Range.
I suggest that the page be renamed to B.C. Mountain ranges and that it explain the north-south character of them. It should also include the Nicola Plateau even though it is not a mountain range per se.
A reasonable alternate approach would be to rename it Interior Region if the intent is to describe more than the geography.
There is a great example page ( Monashee Mountains) for one of B.C.'s Interior Mountain Ranges that could be followed for the other ones listed, although I question the level of detail in the list of ranges shown. Is there a point in drilling down to such a level of detail?
Also, even though there is excessive detail, the list does not include the Monashees, the Purcells, the Selkirks. Also, for some odd reason it excludes the Rockies although these are clearly an Interior Mountain range. Perhaps it pays too much attention to provincial borders. A page on geography (i.e. mountain ranges) should not worry that the Rocky Mountains are not wholly in B.C., or in Canada for that matter. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.152.136.95 ( talk) 19:57, 4 January 2007 (UTC).
Well, whoever 81.152.136.95 is, what I can tell you is that "Interior Mountains" is an "official" designation, created/enshrined by S. Holland in Landforms of British Columbia, a BC govt publication from the 1970s in most BC libraries (SFU has about 20 copies, at least), which sets out the various range defintions and their groupings. The Monashees, Purcells, and Selkirks are part of the Columbia Mountains, which also in some classifications includes the Cariboo Mountains as well as the Okanagan, Quesnel and Shuswap Highlands (nominally part of the Interior Plateau). The name "Interior Mountains" isn't meant to mean "mountains in the Interior"; I prefer the term Northern Interior Mountains but no one else that I know of has used it, except in casual speech/writing; why the Hazelton Mountains aren't included in the Coast Mountains I'm not sure, also, but all mountain range classifications being built here are based in S. Holland, which is also used by http://bivouac.com as well as http://www.peakbagger.com, the two main online "authorities" (and I was the one who built most of bivouac's system, in fact, using S. Holland). I'll add a qualifier to the intro that the name does not mean "mountains in the Interior", but is a name for the mountains of the Northern Interior (everything north of the Nechako/McGregor Plateaus, but excluding the Northern Rockies). Skookum1 20:12, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
It was pointed out in an edit by User:Black Tusk that the two terms in the lede are "unofficial", which is to say they do not appear in either BCGNIS or CGNDB, though I amended that to "semi-official" as the mames were coined bya government geographer in a work which is the basis for the official toponymy in BCGNIS. Myself, I would have preferred "Northern Interior Mountains" to avoid confusions of exactly the kind above, but Holland chose to use "Interior Mountains" between the two possible terms and at bivouac.com we decided to follow suit with that, and that has been also followed by www.peakbagger.com. It's for all this that I included a ref/footnote explaining the coining of the terms and their semi-official nature. They are not (as yet) gazetted names although all their component parts are and, as I said in teh footnote, Holland's work is t eh basis for the official toponymy. Various other terms in that book are also not found in BCGNIS, and many in BCGNIS are also not found in CGNDB....(and vice-versa). Skookum1 ( talk) 03:45, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
I'm pretty sure this is a subrange of the Nass Ranges and should be sectioned/bulleted as such, I'll look into it; similarly the Eaglenest Range is, I think, on the Spatsizi Plateau. Skookum1 ( talk) 02:56, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
Looking at the huge parks list, I'm thinking it might be useful to move them individually into the ranges/plateaus where they are located; if they bridge two or more, they should appear in each. Skookum1 ( talk) 02:56, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
In Holland's index, this is a subchapter of Interior Mountains, and of course if pretty much more mountains than it is plateau; the Tagish Highland I think doesn't belong here, I'll work on that in the next edits. Skookum1 ( talk) 03:00, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
The Interior Mountains are most likely in the Yukon as well if the Cassiar Mountains lie in the Yukon. [1] Black Tusk ( talk) 03:25, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
What is the highest point of the Interior Mountains? I searched for the highest point while searching and I looked through all of the subrange articles but not all have the highest point in the infoboxes. The discription about most its summits being unnamed, mostly uninhabited and undeveloped probably explains why I can't find the highest point. But even if it dosen't have an established name I would think there would be at least an unofficial name, due to the huge size of the region. Black Tusk ( talk) 15:51, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
I am willing to create a template for the Interior Mountains and its subranges if needed. A large mountain range like the Interior Mountains should have at least one mountain template like the Coast Mountains, Canadian Rockies, etc.... Black Tusk ( talk) 18:26, 18 June 2009 (UTC)