Mount Jacobsen, 3031 m (9944 feet), is a

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in the northernmost

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of the

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in the Central Coast region of

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, located to the south of the

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and immediately south of Ape Lake, to the west of the valley of the

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. The

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begins at the Noeick Glacier on the northwest side of the peak at . In the same

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and immediately west of the peak of Mount Jacobsen is West Jacobsen Peak, 2971 m (9747 feet) at . Ape Glacier, named in association with Ape Lake and Ape Mountain, is on the north side of the Jacobsen massif. at .

Name origin

Mount Jacobsen and West Jacobsen Peak are named for B.F. Jacobsen, who settled in the Bella Coola Valley prior to 1890 and was who encouraged the Reverend Christian Saugstad, the namesake of Mount Saugstad, to move his colony of Norwegian immigrants to Bella Coola from

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.BC Names/GeoBC entry "Mount Saugstad"
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References

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