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Seven Sisters Peaks is a 2,747-metre (9,012-foot) multi-summit massif located in the Bulkley Ranges of the Interior Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. The massif is situated within Seven Sisters Provincial Park and Protected Area , 10 km (6 mi) southeast of Cedarvale , south of Orion Peak , and surrounded by Seven Sisters Glacier.
The Seven Sisters are seen in the background of the Quidditch World Cup in the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and also when Slartibartfast is showing Arthur Dent the "new" Earth in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, released the same year. Much of the 2015 feature film Mr. Holmes was filmed around the Seven Sisters.
De syv søstre or The Seven Sisters is a mountain range on the island of Alsten in Alstahaug Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. [1] The mountain range consists of seven peaks on the southeastern half of the island. The mountains are (listed from northeast to southwest): [2] Botnkrona, with a height of 1,072 metres (3,517 ft)
Bulkley Ranges, the highest summit is Seven Sisters Peaks, 2,786 m (9,140 ft), southwest of Kitwanga, and which is also the highest summit of the Hazelton Mountains. They include the: Bornite Range; Howson Range, the highest summit of which is Howson Peak, 2,759 m (9,052 ft) O.K. Range; Rocher Déboulé Range; Telkwa Range; Tahtsa Ranges ...
Seven Sisters Mountain is composed of limestone and shale of Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of rocks three miles (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km) long over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. [6]
The Seven Sisters are the location of the Seven Sisters Trail Race every spring, a twelve-mile (19 km) "out-and-back" run that often leaves its runners bloody, bruised and exhausted. [1] In response to a proposed suburban development on the Seven Sisters in the late 1990s, several non-profit groups and local governments worked together to block ...
Mount Logan in the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon is the highest peak of Canada. The following sortable table comprises the 150 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of Canada. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a ...
Of the 50 most prominent summits of Canada, only Mount Logan exceeds 4000 metres (13,123 feet) of topographic prominence, five peaks exceed 3000 metres (9843 feet), 41 peaks exceed 2000 metres (6562 feet), and all 50 peaks equal or exceed 1866 metres (6122 feet) of topographic prominence. All of these peaks are ultra-prominent summits.