Mount Belanger
Mount Belanger is a 3,109-metre (10,200 ft) mountain, making it Alberta's 130th highest peak. It was named in 1814 in memory of André Bélanger, a French Canadian, member of the Astoria expedition, who with Gabriel Franchère and others where coming back by land to Montréal. After having set up Astoria at the mouth of the Columbia River in present day Oregon. André Bélanger and Olivier Roy-Lapensée drowned in the Athabasca River in 1814 and Thus Gabriel Franchère named that mountain after him and a rapid and a piece of land in memory of Lapensée. It lies within peaks that are between the Athabasca River and Whirlpool Rivers in Jasper National Park.
Elevation: 3120 m
Country: Canada
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