Mount Garibaldi

Mount Garibaldi
Mount Garibaldi (March 2005)
height	2678  m
location	British Columbia ( Canada )
Mountains	Pacific Ranges ( Coast Mountains )
Coordinates	49 ° 51 '55 "  N , 122 ° 59' 45"  W Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '55 "  N , 122 ° 59' 45"  W.
Type	Stratovolcano

Mount Garibaldi is a 2,678 meter-high stratovolcano in the Coast Mountains in British Columbia .

The heavily weathered summit complex rises 40 miles north of Vancouver in Garibaldi Provincial Park . Mount Garibaldi is the largest volcano in the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt , which belongs to the Cascade Volcanic Arc and, like Glacier Peak in the Cascade Range, consists entirely of Dacite . The mountain has a uniquely asymmetrical appearance because the main peak piled on top of a large glacier system that has now melted.

Mount Garibaldi has three peaks:

• the southern peak Atwell, a pyramidal peak, was the source of many pyroclastic flows during the volcanic development
• Dalton Dome, the northern summit is slightly higher than Atwell and came in the last eruptions of dacite
• Columnar Peak.

history

Mount Garibaldi was discovered in 1860 by British officer George Henry on the survey ship HMS Plumper while surveying the Howe Sound . Its captain named the mountain after the Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi . The mountain was first climbed in 1907 by a group of six Vancouver climbers. The view and the surrounding area led to regular mountaineering camps at Garibaldi Lake in summer , so that as early as 1920 the area was classified as a park reserve. In 1927, Garibaldi Provincial Park was established with a size of 195,000 hectares.

literature

• Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes , Stephen L. Harris, (Mountain Press Publishing Company, Missoula; 1988) ISBN 0-87842-220-X

Web links

Commons : Mount Garibaldi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mount Garibaldi . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
• Mount Garibaldi . In: Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia . (English)
• Mount Garibaldi on Peakbagger.com (English)
• Information about Garibaldi Provincial Park on britishcolumbia.com (Engl.)