Mount Swannell, 1821 m (5974 ft),

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in the

Fawnie Range The Fawnie Range is a small hill-range located to the south of the Ootsa Lake reservoir and to the north of the West Road River in the Nechako Plateau region of the British Columbia Interior, Central Interior of British Columbia, Canada. The northw ...

of the

Nechako Plateau The Nechako Plateau is the northernmost subdivision of the Interior Plateau, one of the main geographic regions of the Canadian province of British Columbia. It spans the basin of the Nechako River and its tributaries the Stuart River and Endako ...

in the Central Interior region of

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. It is located to the south of the outlet of the Entiako River into Natalkuz Lake, which is part of the

Nechako Reservoir The Nechako Reservoir, sometimes called the Ootsa Lake Reservoir, is a hydroelectric reservoir in British Columbia, Canada that was formed by the Kenney Dam making a diversion of the Nechako River through a 16-km intake tunnel in the Kitimat Range ...

. The northernmost of the summits of the Fawnie Range and is in the northeastern end of

Entiako Provincial Park Entiako Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located on the south flank of the Nechako River watercourse . History In 1956, the boundaries of Tweedsmuir Provincial Park Tweedsmuir South Provincial Park is a provinc ...

, it is the only named summit of the Fawnie Range within the park.

Name origin

Mount Swannell, like other similar names in British Columbia, is named for

Frank Swannell Frank Cyril Swannell (May 16, 1880 in Hamilton, Ontario - 1969 in Victoria) was one of British Columbia's most famous surveyors. He came to British Columbia during the era of the Klondike Gold Rush and became a surveyor's assistant. Then, from ...

, a notable British Columbia Land Surveyor who mapped much of the province by foot and horseback in the late 19th and into the mid 20th Century. He mapped this region in the 1920s, producing detailed topographic and trigonometric surveys, leaving such publications as: *''Sketch Map of the echakoRiver and Lake System, 1920-21-22'' *''Topographic plan 14T1: Morice,

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, Tahtsa Lakes, 1923'' *''Topographic plan 11T2: Eutsuk Lakes area, 1924'' *''Topographic plan 3T255: Portion of Range 4 Coast District, 1923'' Most of his output of maps, studies, photography and journals are searchable online from the Royal British Columbia Archives, or available through the Ministry of Forests Library of the Ministry of Natural Resources.

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Name origin

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