Mount Moresby
Mount Moresby is the highest mountain of the Queen Charlotte Mountains, located south of Daajing Giids on Moresby Island in British Columbia, Canada.
The mountain is located around 53 degrees N on Haida Gwaii.
Geography
Mount Moresby is located on Moresby Island, which is the more southern of the two main islands of Haida Gwaii. There are two lakes near it.Nature
Mount Moresby has a wide range of climate sub-types and environments. The flatland around the mountain is at the seaside and have abundant birdlife. The lower slopes boast wind-sculpted cedar, pine and western hemlock forests, grading to sub-alpine moorland with stunted mountain hemlocks on the higher slopes near the summit.The mountain and the sounds around it are home to abundant wildlife, such as black bears, whales, orcas, sea lions, and hundreds of thousands of seabirds. There are also invasive Sitka black-tailed deer, porpoises, dolphins, and tidal-zone animals in the area.
Haida Gwaii has four subpopulations of an endangered plant: Oxystegus recurvifolius, endemic to remote islands in the North Pacific. This plant only thrives in extreme oceanic, mediterranean, and maritime subpolar climates with ultra-high precipitation levels.
Climate
Mount Moresby has a borderline Cfc and Cfb, and the average low in February and March is, showing extreme ocean moderation. Snow is somewhat common in the winter months, at 25 days per year on average, but usually doesn't fall in the warm season. The snowiest month of the year is January, averaging a week of measurable snow.The winter-summer temperature swings of Mount Moresby are extremely oceanic compared to other places at similar latitudes, as well as areas slightly farther south, even accounting for the somewhat high elevation.
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| Average snowy days | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 25 |
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Natives
There are indigenous Canadians on Moresby Island. A village, called Daajing Giids, of 950 people exists near Mount Moresby. The Haidas live in and around the Mount Moresby area in longhice. In the colonial period, European whites did not take the Haidas' land, but they did steal their objects and reduce their numbers drastically, so as to weaken the Haidas' cultural traditions by the same order of magnitude as what happened to their numbers. However, they are now experiencing a vibrant cultural renaissance.Haida Gwaii was one of the first areas in what is now Canada to be settled after the last glacial maximum due to its relatively low elevations and its oceanic location, so as for it to be settled by Native Americans as early as 13,000 BCE, while the mainland was ice-covered until a little before 8,000 BCE. As a result, the Haida are one of the oldest tracable civilizations.