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Quebec - Mount D'Iberville
The border between Quebec and Labrador
is defined as the watershed divide between rivers flowing east
to the Atlantic and those flowing west into Ungava Bay. This peak,
the highest point on this divide, was unnamed until 1971. The
name "Mont d'Iberville" was given to this never-climbed
mountain by the Quebec Toponym Commision in that year.
Mount
D'Iberville
1,652 metres
5,420 feet |
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· D'Iberville has various routes
to the summit |
| History |
The highest summit in Quebec, at 1,652 metres, is Mont d'Iberville
in the Torngat Mountains. This name was given in 1971 by
the Commission de toponymie du Québec for Pierre
Le Moyne d'Iberville (1661-1706). D'Iberville led many ruthless
expeditions in North America, including a destructive rampage
in St. John's and the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland in
1696 and 1697. Pierre LeMoyne Sieur d'Iberville was a French
officer who twice burned all of Newfoundland's major towns
to the ground.
In 1981, the Newfoundland Geographical Names Board ascertained
that the peak so named was on the Quebec-Labrador boundary
and decided that it should be assigned a name more suitable
to that region's history. The board gave it the name Mount
Caubvik in honour of one of the five Inuit who accompanied
George Cartwright, a trader on the Labrador coast, to
England in 1772. So it is no coincidence that the heights
of the highest points in Quebec and Newfoundland are identical:
they are the same feature, but with two quite different
names.
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Photo: Hazen Russell,
Iapetus Ocean Expeditions (1982) |
| Routes |
Drive to Goose Bay, NF, take an PAL
flight to Nain and charter a boat to Nachvak Fjord. Requires
2 days of travel and a 7 month advance reservation. Boat
would return in 7 days for pickup. Climb to summit would
take approximately 4 or 5 days. Estimated cost $1000/return.
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