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Okanagan Highland
Okanogan Highlands
Plateau
Montane Spruce Zone overlooking Browne Lake in the Okanagan Highland
Location map of the Okanagan Highland
Location map of the Okanagan Highland
Coordinates: 49°35′00″N 119°00′00″W / 49.58333°N 119.00000°W / 49.58333; -119.00000[1]
LocationBritish Columbia and Washington
AgeMesozoic

The Okanagan Highland is an elevated hilly plateau area in British Columbia, Canada, and the U.S. state of Washington (where it is spelled Okanogan Highlands). Rounded mountains with elevations up to 8,000 ft (2,400 m) above sea level and deep, narrow valleys are characteristic of the region.

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the Thompson Plateau near Grindrod, British Columbia in the Okanagan to the Okanagan Highland near Douglas County, Washington in the Okanogan. The largest...

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Okanagan

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Monashee Mountains

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Columbia, and reaches west to the southern extremity of the Okanagan Highland (spelled Okanogan Highland in the US) just northeast of the confluence of the Okanogan...

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North American Cordillera

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Thompson River. The Okanagan Highland is the part of the Interior Plateau to the east of the Thompson Plateau, and is bounded by the Okanagan River on the west...

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Okanogan

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Fraser Canyon Gold Rush from Oregon Okanagan Highland, upland plateau area in British Columbia and Washington State Okanagan Range, a subrange of the Cascade...

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Quesnel Highland

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area, the Okanagan Highland, extends from the southern end of the Shuswap Highland in the area of Vernon and Enderby in the northern Okanagan region into...

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Columbia Mountains

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Quesnel Highland (west flank of the Cariboos), the Shuswap Highland (south of the Cariboos and west of the northern Monashees), and the Okanagan Highland (west...

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Columbia River drainage basin

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by the Cascades, Blue, Wallowa, and Rocky mountain ranges and the Okanagan Highland. This sense of the term Columbia Basin has expanded from its early...

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Shuswap Highland

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southeast towards the lower Shuswap River east of Vernon in the Okanagan. The highland is not a unified range, but a combination of small uplands broken...

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Okanagan Mountain

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destroyed in the Okanagan Mountain forest fire in 2003. It is part of the Okanagan Highland, a high, hilly plateau-like area between Okanagan Lake and the...

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Okanagan Range

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and to the east by the Okanagan River and Similkameen River. The Okanagan Range should not be confused with the Okanagan Highland, which is located on the...

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Okanogan River

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river's name (and the region and also the name of the Okanagan Highland) changes spelling from Okanagan to Okanogan. Average annual flow of the river at this...

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Beaverdell Range

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The Beaverdell Range is a subrange of the Okanagan Highland in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, located between the West Kettle and Kettle Rivers...

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Penticton

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pen-TIK-tən) is a city in the Okanagan Valley of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, situated between Okanagan and Skaha lakes. In the 2016...

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Washington State Route 20

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travels across Whidbey Island, North Cascades National Park, the Okanagan Highland, the Kettle River Range, and the Selkirk Mountains. SR 20 connects...

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Graystokes Provincial Park

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of the ecologically diverse Okanagan Highland east of the Okanagan Valley. Graystokes Park is set in the Okanagan Highland, a plateau featuring a rich...

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Osoyoos

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the Okanagan Valley in either direction. The Crowsnest headed east begins with an 18 km (11 mi) switchback up the flank of the Okanagan Highland with...

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Big White Mountain

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mountain of the Okanagan Highland, Canada, and also of the Beaverdell Range, a subrange of that formation, which lies between the Okanagan Valley to its...

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Okanagan Basin

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The Okanagan Basin spans two countries and comprises the basin of Okanagan Lake, the Okanogan River and tributary valleys such as that of the Similkameen...

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Big White Ski Resort

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Mountain, the highest summit in the Okanagan Highland, an upland area between the Monashee Mountains and the Okanagan Valley. Big White is the fourth largest...

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Geology of British Columbia

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rock type. Coast Mountains Coast Range Arc Okanagan Highland Omineca Mountains Quesnel Highland Shuswap Highland Geology of the Pacific Northwest Volcanism...

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North Cascades

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Juan Islands. The significance of the geologic transitions to the Okanagan Highland to the east and the Interior Plateau and Coast Mountains to the north...

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Dickwhitea

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from shallow waters, as evidenced by plant and animal fossils. The Okanagan Highland sites, such as the Princeton chert represent upland lake systems that...

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Eocene Okanagan Highlands

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Washington sites. Focus and more detailed descriptive work on the Okanagan Highland sites started in the late 1960s. The majority of the paleolake deposits...

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Allenbya holmesae

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Allenbya holmesae. The genus was first described in 2022 from an Early Eocene Okanagan Highlands site in western North America. The species is known from the...

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Insular Belt

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