The Shuswap Highland is a plateau-like hilly area of 14,511 km2 (5,603 sq mi) in British Columbia, Canada.[1] It spans the upland area between the Bonaparte and Thompson Plateaus from the area of Mahood Lake, at the southeast corner of the Cariboo Plateau, 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 up by the valleys of the Clearwater, North Thompson and Adams Rivers and also by the lowlands in the southwest flanking Shuswap Lake. In that area of the valley are the towns of Falkland, Westwold, and Monte Creek along Highway 97. This area also includes the Spa Hills, and the other isolated pockets of hills and mini-plateaus between the Thompson Plateau proper and Shuswap Lake. The highest point of the Highland is Matterhorn Peak in the Dunn Peak massif at 2636 meters.[2]
The Shuswap Highland is in essence a foothill (or transitional) area between the much broader interior plateaus southwest and west of it, and the mountainous terrain of the northern Monashee and Cariboo Mountains on the east/north-east.
Climates here range from sub-alpine in the mountains, especially further north, to a semi-arid, more temperate, continental climate that is found around Shuswap Lake.
The ShuswapHighland is a plateau-like hilly area of 14,511 km2 (5,603 sq mi) in British Columbia, Canada. It spans the upland area between the Bonaparte...
Shuswap River to the east and Mabel Lake to the west. The portion of the ShuswapHighland south of the North Thompson River to the Okanagan Highland,...
Range to the west and northwest. Within the Interior plateau, the ShuswapHighland consists of a portion of the foothills between the Thompson Plateau...
Integrated Land Management Bureau, defines the Okanagan Highland as an area extending southward from the Shuswap River and the Coldstream Valley, east of Vernon...
rises to 2,636 metres (8,648 ft), making it the highest point in the ShuswapHighland. Though technically part of the Columbia Mountains to the north and...
Highland Gosse Range Palmer Range Goose Range Palmer Range ShuswapHighland Hunters Range Mabel Range Park Range Sawtooth Range Seymour Range Shuswap...
classified area dubbed by Holland the ShuswapHighland which spans similar terrain across the North Thompson and Shuswap Lake-Adams River drainage basins,...
and Washington Selwyn Mountains, Yukon Seymour Range Shulaps Range ShuswapHighland Sir Donald Range Sir Sandford Range Somerset Range Sophia Range Spearhead...
Thompson Rivers, to the east of which is an upland area known as the ShuswapHighland. This was the site of a Pine Tree Line early warning radar station...
Thompson Plateau and also country beyond it to the northeast in the ShuswapHighland and to the north in the Bonaparate Plateau. Located in the rainshadow...
the northern Monashee Mountains, while the lower end penetrates the ShuswapHighland. The southern end is by road about 79 kilometres (49 mi) northeast...
North Thompson River is part of the ShuswapHighland, which crosses the North Thompson and continues into the Shuswap Lake area. N.B. Some classification...
name just east of the city of Kamloops. Northeast of that line is the ShuswapHighland. Some definitions[which?] include the Bonaparte Plateau to the north...
the highest mountain of the Sawtooth Range, which is part of the ShuswapHighland. It is located just east of Joss Mountain, which is the northernmost...
Star) is a ski resort located near Silver Star Provincial Park in the ShuswapHighland of the Monashee Mountains, 22 km northeast of the city of Vernon, British...
rather than the adjoining mountain ranges, are the ShuswapHighland, Okanagan Highland and Quesnel Highland. The location of the Interior Plateau in North...
east and Spahats Creek to the south. Trophy Mountain is part of the ShuswapHighland. There are nine summits in the group and the highest is 2,577 m (8...
and North Thompson River to the south. Raft Mountain is part of the ShuswapHighland. There are five summits in the group and the highest is 2,450 m (8...
important northeast of Kamloops in the ShuswapHighland country, towards Adams Lake and the rest of the Shuswap Country. Logging and tourism are other...
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