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Coast Mountains

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Coast Mountains
A range of western British Columbia, Canada, and southeast Alaska extending about 1,609 km (1,000 mi) parallel to the Pacific coast. The mountains slope precipitously to the Pacific Ocean, where the shoreline is deeply indented by fjords. Mount Waddington, 3,996.7 m (13,104 ft), is the highest elevation in the range.
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Noun1.Coast MountainsCoast Mountains - a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California
Coast Range
Cascade Mountains, Cascade Range, Cascades - a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range
Mount Hubbard, Hubbard - a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (14,950 feet high)
North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama
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We are reconstructing Holocene environments in Garibaldi Provincial Park, in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, by examining a diverse set of paleoenvironmental records, including tree-rings, lake sediments, glacial landforms, and photographs.
Environmental change in Garibaldi Provincial Park, Southern Coast ... by Osborn, Gerald D. / Geoscience Canada
``I've been in the guiding business since 1979 and this is the hardest project I've ever taken on,'' said Scotton, who used to guide wild-boar hunts throughout the Central Coast mountains of California.
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The resort is located at the foot of both Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, in the spectacular Coast Mountains of British Columbia, only 75 miles north of Vancouver.
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