Английская Википедия:Chopaka Mountain

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Chopaka Mountain, also known as Mount Chopaka, is a summit in the leeward flank of the North Cascades. Its summit area is a Natural Area Preserve comprising Шаблон:Convert, and features a mountain goat population and various rare plants. The last surviving native herd of bighorn sheep in Washington was located on Chopaka Mountain until hunted out in the 1920s.[1]

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Aerial view looking west at Chopaka, centered.

Name origin

According to the British Columbia Geographical Names Information System, in their record on nearby Chopaka, British Columbia, Chopaka was either an Okanagan hunter turned to stone by "coyote", or a maiden transformed into stone.[2] Another meaning is given by regional climbing guide author Fred Beckey who states that Chopaka is an Indian word meaning "high mountain".[3]

See also

References

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External links

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  1. Шаблон:Cite web
  2. 12th Report of the Okanagan Historical Society, 1948, citing A. Walsh and Parham, cited in Шаблон:Cite bcgnis
  3. Шаблон:Cite book