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Coast Mountains (B.C. and Alaska)

LC control no.sh 93005269
Geographic headingCoast Mountains (B.C. and Alaska)
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Geographic subdivision usageCoast Mountains (B.C. and Alaska)
See alsoCascade Range
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Mountains--Alaska
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Mountains--British Columbia
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Found inWeb. geog.: under Coast Ranges (Coast Mountains of British Columbia are not a continuation of the U.S. Coast Ranges but of the Cascade Range) under Cascade Range (its continuation N in British Columbia, Canada, is known as the Coast Mts.)
Britannica Micro. (Coast Mountains: in B.C. and Alaska, usually regarded as a segment of the Pacific Coast Ranges (but sometimes considered separate because of a varied geologic origin))
Lippincott (Coast Mountains, W B.C. and S. Alaska. The Coast Mts. are sometimes confused with the physiographically distinct Coast Ranges belt)
GeoRef (Coast Mountains: extend from Yukon Territory to the Fraser River serving as border between NW British Columbia and the Alaskan panhandle)
Washington place names, via WWW, Apr. 26, 2004 (The Cascade Mountains are a continuation of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They extend north from California's Lassen Peak through Oregon and Washington to British Columbia, where the chain again changes name to Coast Mountains.)