Bendor Range
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Bendor Range | |
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![]() Northwestern Bendor Range seen from Tyaughton Lake. Mount Truax at left. | |
Highest point | |
Peak | Whitecap Mountain |
Elevation | 2,918 m (9,573 ft) |
Coordinates | 50°43′00″N 122°30′34″W / 50.71667°N 122.50944°W |
Dimensions | |
Area | 728 km2 (281 sq mi) |
Geography | |
Country | Canada |
Province | British Columbia |
Parent range | Pacific Ranges |
The Bendor Range is a small but once-famous subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, about It is approximately 7,000 square kilometres (2,700 sq mi) in area and about 40 km long (NW to SE) and about 18 km at its widest. It lies between Anderson Lake on the southeast and the Carpenter Lake Reservoir or the Bridge River Power Project on the north, with the gold-rich valley of Cadwallader Creek on its southwest.
The range's western flank is the site of a series of now-semi-abandoned mining towns. One of these,
The range has only a few small icefields, but a number of extremely high and (for climbers) difficult peaks. The highest is
Note: some classification systems assign the Bendor to the Chilcotin Ranges subgrouping of the Pacific Ranges, but this is incorrect as it is on the south side of the Bridge River, which is the limit of the Chilcotin Ranges.