Nestor Peak is a 2,972-metre (9,751-foot) mountain summit located in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park of British Columbia, Canada.
Nestor Peak is situated 7 km (4.3 mi) west of the Continental Divide in the Mitchell Range which is a sub-range of the Canadian Rockies.
[1] The mountain was named in 1916 by interprovincial boundary surveyors after HMS Nestor, a destroyer sunk in the Battle of Jutland during World War I.
[4] The mountain's toponym was officially adopted on March 3, 1960, by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.
[3] Nestor Peak is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.