The
Quesnel Highland is a geographic area in the
Central Interior of the
Canadian province of
British Columbia. As defined by BC government geographer in
Landforms of British Columbia, an account and analysis of British Columbia geography that is often cited as authoritative, the Highland is a complex of upland hill and plateau areas forming and defined as being the buffer between the
Cariboo Plateau and the
Cariboo Mountains, as a sort of highland foothills along the eastern edge of the
Interior Plateau running southeast from a certain point southeast of the city of
Prince George to the
Mahood Lake area at the southeast corner of the
Cariboo. Beyond Mahood Lake lies another separately classified area dubbed by Holland the
Shuswap Highland which spans similar terrain across the North Thompson and Shuswap Lake-Adams River drainage basins, forming a similar upland-area buffer between the Thompson Plateau and the Monashee Mountains. A third area, the
Okanagan Highland, extends from the southern end of the
Shuswap Highland in the area of
Vernon and
Enderby in the northern
Okanagan region into Washington State, and also abuts the
Monashee Mountains .