Dease Plateau

The Dease Plateau is a subregion of the larger Yukon Plateau, and is located in far northern British Columbia, Canada, northwest from the Deadwood River to and beyond the Yukon-British Columbia boundary.^[1] The plateau is named in association with Dease Lake and the Dease River. Very mountainous in some of its vast area, it is in some classification systems it is included as a subarea of the Cassiar Mountains.^[2]

References

↑ "Dease Plateau". BC Geographical Names.
↑ Landforms of British Columbia, S. Holland, publ. British Columbia Govt., 1976

Plateaus and Highlands of British Columbia

Interior Plateau	Fraser Chilcotin Cariboo Bonaparte Shuswap Quesnel Okanagan Thompson Nechako McGregor Dil-Dil

Stikine Plateau	Tahltan Tagish Tanzilla Klastline Nahlin Kawdy Taku Spatsizi Arctic Lake Big Raven Kitsu Nicoamen

Yukon Plateau	Dease Nisutlin Teslin

Vancouver Island	Forbidden

Coordinates: 59°35′00″N 129°30′00″W / 59.58333°N 129.50000°W / 59.58333; -129.50000

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