Mount Carleton

{{short description|Mountain in New Brunswick, Canada}}

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| name = Mount Carleton

| photo = Mont Carleton vue mont Head.jpg

| photo_caption = View of Mount Carleton from Mount Head

| elevation_m = 820

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| listing = {{unbulleted list

|Canada most isolated peaks 45th

|Canadian Subnational High Points 10th

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| map = Canada New Brunswick

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| label_position = right

| location = Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada

| range = Appalachian Mountains

| coordinates = {{coord|47|22|41|N|66|52|33|W|type:mountain_region:CA_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref ={{cite cgndb|id=DAZWY|name=Mount Carleton|accessdate=2019-09-11}}

| topo = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|21|O|7}}

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| easiest_route = Hike

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File:1993 Mount Carleton2.jpg

File:1993 Mount Carleton climb.jpg

Mount Carleton ({{langx|fr|Mont Carleton}}), at {{convert|820|m|ft}}, is the highest peak in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, and the Maritime Provinces. Located in Mount Carleton Provincial Park, it is one of the highlights of the Canadian portion of the International Appalachian Trail. Mount Carleton is also part of the eighth and final section of the Nepisiguit Mi'gmaq Trail.{{Cite web|title = HISTORY - FRIENDS OF THE NEPISIGUIT MI'GMAQ TRAIL|url = https://migmaqtrail.wordpress.com/history-friends-of-the-nepisiguit-migmaq-trail/|accessdate = 2015-09-23}} The mountain was named after Thomas Carleton, New Brunswick's first lieutenant governor,Rayburn, A. (1975) Geographical Names of New Brunswick. Toponymy Study 2. Surveys and Mapping Branch, Energy Mines and Resources Canada, Ottawa and forms part of the Notre Dame Mountains chain, which is visible on Map 24 of the NB Atlas.{{cite web|url=http://www.snb.ca/gdam-igec/e/2900e_1a.asp|website=snb.ca|title=NB Atlas, Second Edition (Revised 2002)|access-date=2019-09-11}}

Before aerial surveillance was extensively used, a hut was maintained on the summit for fire-spotting in the remote north-central part of the province. A very similar hut was maintained on Big Bald Mountain. Triangulation among these huts and other fire towers allowed the locations of wildfires to be determined quickly and easily.

Mount Carleton is a monadnock, an erosional remnant of resistant igneous rocks that remained after an ancient Mesozoic peneplain surface was uplifted in the Cenozoic to form a plateau, and subsequently dissected via millions of years of erosion by wind, water and glacial ice.Wilson, R. A., M. A. Parkhill, and J. I. Carroll, New Brunswick Appalachian Transect: Bedrock and Quaternary geology of the Mount Carleton - Restigouche River Area, http://www.gnb.ca/0078/minerals/pdf/FieldG_Bdrk_Quatern_Geo_NE_NB-e.pdfRoland, A. E. 1982. Geological Background and Physiography of Nova Scotia. Halifax: The Nova Scotian Institute of Science.[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930060859/http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0005479 Mount Carleton Provincial Park] Retrieved on 2007-08-18 It consists of 400 million-year-old rhyolitic and basaltic volcanics.