Waddington Range
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| Highest point | |
| Peak | Mount Waddington |
| Elevation | 4,019 m (13,186 ft) |
| Coordinates | 51°22′25″N 125°15′48″W / 51.37361°N 125.26333°W |
| Dimensions | |
| Area | 4,000 km2 (1,500 sq mi) |
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 Waddington Range
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| Country | Canada |
| Province | British Columbia |
| Range coordinates | 51°23′N 125°20′W / 51.383°N 125.333°WCoordinates: 51°23′N 125°20′W / 51.383°N 125.333°W |
| Parent range | Pacific Ranges |
| Borders on | Pantheon Range and Whitemantle Range |
The Waddington Range is a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is only about 4000 km² (1545 sq mi) in area, relatively small in area within the expanse of the range, but it is the highest area of the Pacific Ranges and of the Coast Mountains, being crowned by its namesake Mount Waddington 4019 m (13186 ft). The Waddington Range is also extremely rugged and more a complex of peaks than a single icefield, in contrast to the other huge icefield-massifs of the southern Coast Mountains, which are not so peak-studded and tend to have more contiguous icemasses.
The difficulty of access to the core of the massif delayed actual sighting, measurement and climbing of Mount Waddington until 1936; it had only been espied from Vancouver Island by climbers in the 1930s and was at first referred to as Mystery Mountain - because its existence until then had been unknown. Apparently even in First Nations lore its existence was spoken of only vaguely, as a possibility, and it seems unlikely the core of the massif was penetrated by any First Nations adventurer given the tremendous difficulty posed even for mountaineers equipped with modern outdoor gear.
At its eastern edge, deep in the Grand Canyon of the Homathko River, occurred the first gruesome event in the guerilla war known to history as the Chilcotin War of 1864. This resulted from the attempt by Alfred Waddington to build a road from Bute Inlet to Barkerville. Port Waddington, a land-survey left over from those days, remains on the map on the south bank of the Homathko where it empties into Bute Inlet.
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