Mount Arrowsmith is the highest

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east of

Port Alberni Port Alberni () is a city located on Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Canada. The city lies within the Alberni Valley at the head of the Alberni Inlet, Vancouver Island's longest inlet. It is the location of the head offices o ...

on Vancouver Island. Its dominant rock is

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. The mountain is contained within the

Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Region (MABR) is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve located on the east coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It was designated in 2000 by UNESCO to protect a large second-growth coast Douglas fir ecosystem i ...

and as of September 18, 2009 is designated part of hectare Mt. Arrowsmith Massif Regional Park.

History

The mountain is named kał-ka-č’ałḥ (Kulth-ka-choolth) meaning Jagged Points Facing Upward in the

Hupacasath First Nation The Hupacasath First Nation is a First Nations government based in the Alberni Valley on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. An alternate spelling of Hupac ...

and

Coast Salish The Coast Salish is a group of ethnically and linguistically related Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, living in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Washington and Oregon. They speak one of the C ...

languages. The first recorded ascent by colonists was made by botanist John Macoun in 1887. Macoun was a botanist to the

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Mount Waddington Mount Waddington, once known as Mystery Mountain, is the highest peak in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Although it is lower than Mount Fairweather and Mount Quincy Adams, which straddle the United States border between Alask ...

was first seen from the peak of Mount Arrowsmith by Don and Phyllis Munday in 1925 (see also Mount Munday). The mountain was named about 1853 by

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for cartographers, Aaron Arrowsmith and his nephew John Arrowsmith.

Biogeoclimatic Zones

Mount Arrowsmith has three main biogeoclimatic zones. On the windward, wetter west-facing slopes the Coastal Western Hemlock zone occurs up to , where it grades into the Mountain Hemlock zone. This forms a continuous forest up to ; above is a parkland phase which grades into the Alpine Tundra zone at . The leeward, east-facing slopes are warmer thanks to more sunshine, and all zone boundaries are higher by .R.N. Green and K. Klinka (1994). A Field Guide to Site Identification and Interpretation for the Vancouver Forest Region, p. 36

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History

Biogeoclimatic Zones

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