In 1957, the theme was further expanded by an Alpine Club of Canada with the inclusionDresden Mountain, Leipzig Mountain and Scharnhorst Mountain, with all three names laterbeing adopted.

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In the Chilko Lake area of British Columbia you will find several features that have namesassociated with the Battle of Coronel, whether they were intended as a memorial to thebattle is unknown as no conclusive evidence to this has been found. If however they weremeant to commemorate the battle then only the initial names suggested, Good Hope andMonmouth, could be considered as such, the others were then named in logical associationfollowing the long standing mountaineering tradition of assigning names by a theme.

On June 6, 1923, Richard Preston Bishop, BCLS (British Columbia Land Surveyor), suggestedthe names of Good Hope and Monmouth, after the Royal Navy armoured cruisers HMS GoodHope and HMS Monmouth. He and his assistant, George Durham, had climbed both peaks ina 1922 whilst carrying out a triangulation survey. On May 6, 1924, the names of Mount GoodHope and Mount Monmouth were adopted, the form of the names were later changed toGood Hope Mountain (April 16, 1950) and Monmouth Mountain (September 6, 1951).

The theme was later expanded by an Alpine Club of Canada in 1953 to include; AdmiralRidge (adopted 1965), Canopus Mountain (adopted 1965), Coronel Mountain (adopted 1965),Cradock Glacier (adopted 1960), Glasgow Mountain (adopted 1965), Mount Cradock (adopted1965) and Otranto Mountain (adopted 1960).

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Richard Preston B~hop was born on September 14, 1884, in Starcross, Devon, England. Hewas an officer in the British Admiralty (1906-07), and gained his commission as a LandSurveyor in 1911. He carried out surveys, in British Columbia near Lillooet in 1912 and 1913as well as in the Cariboo, north of Quensel, in 1915. During World War 2 he served as aCaptain. On February 13, 1954, he died at Victoria aged 70. The Bishop River (originally EastFork Southgate River), which flows west into Southgate River, southwest of Chilko Lake, wasnamed after him in 1923 and adopted on May 6, 1924.

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