Pic Champlain, Mountain peak in Bas-Saint-Laurent, Canada.
Pic Champlain is a mountain summit in Bic National Park that rises 346 meters above sea level with steep flanks on both sides. The peak's geological formation creates the prominent landscape feature visitors notice when exploring the park area.
Jean Alfonse labelled the mountain cap de Marbre in his Cosmographie of 1544. Samuel de Champlain described it in 1603 during his first voyage on the Saint Lawrence, and the word pic on his map later became Bic through lexical corruption. The name pic Champlain was made official in 1979.
The name Pic Champlain was made official in 1979, replacing the long-used Montagne du Bic or Bic Hill. The word Bic itself comes from Champlain's "Pic", altered over time. Hikers today follow two marked trails, Le Pic Champlain and Les Murailles, and find telecommunication antennas on the summit.
The hike to the summit takes roughly two hours for the round trip on a path of about three kilometers. The climb is manageable for average hikers but requires good footwear and care on the steeper sections.
The summit carries telecommunication antennas, and a service road reaches them, so the top is not entirely wild. The mountain also served for centuries as a landmark for navigation on the Saint Lawrence, and Champlain wrote the word "pic" on his map, which later became "Bic".
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