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Mount Gosford
View from the summit.
Highest point
Elevation1,193 m (3,914 ft)[1]
Prominence541 m (1,775 ft)[1]
ListingQuebec 1000 meter peaks
Coordinates45°18′06″N 70°52′04″W / 45.30167°N 70.86778°W / 45.30167; -70.86778
Geography
Mount Gosford is located in Quebec
Mount Gosford
Mount Gosford
Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn, Quebec
Parent rangeLongfellow Mountains
Geology
Age of rockPrecambrian[2]
Mountain typeGneiss, Granulite
Climbing
Easiest routehiking

Mount Gosford is a mountain located in southern Quebec, Canada, at the border with Maine. It lies entirely in Saint-Augustin-de-Woburn in Estrie and is part of the White Mountains of the Appalachians. It is named after Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, governor general of British North America from 1835 to 1835. It is the 21st highest peak in Quebec and 4th in Southern Quebec.[3]

It is made of gneiss and granulite dating from the Precambrian era.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Quebec 1000-meter Peaks". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 1 Sep 2011.
  2. ^ a b Pierrette Tremblay, Pierre-André Bourque (1991), Carte géotouristique: Géologie du sud du Québec, du Bas-Saint-Laurent et de la Gaspésie (in French), Québec: Les publications du Québec
  3. ^ "Peak in Quebec Province". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2011-01-31.

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