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Mount Ulysses

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Topo map
  
NTS 94F/08

Prominence
  
2,289 m

Mountain range
  
Muskwa Ranges

Elevation
  
3,024 m

Province
  
British Columbia

Parent range
  
Muskwa Ranges

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Listing
  
North America prominent peak 54th North America isolated peaks 42nd Canada highest major peaks 67th Canada prominent peaks 21st Canada most isolated peaks 15th

Location
  
British Columbia, Canada

Similar
  
Mount Clemenceau, Resplendent Mountain, Mount Saskatchewan, Three Sisters, Mount Whymper

Mount Ulysses, is the highest mountain in the Muskwa Ranges of the Northern Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. It and neighbouring peaks are part of a group of names drawing on the epic poem The Odyssey, in which here Ulysses wanders for 10 years before being able to return home to Ithaca.

Map of Mount Ulysses, Peace River B, BC, Canada

Located north of the headwaters of the Akie River and to the south of Sikanni Chief Lake, its very high prominence of 2289m is relative to Grand Pacific Pass, with its parent peak being an unnamed summit in the Fairweather Range, near Mount Fairweather.

References

Mount Ulysses Wikipedia