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  2. Columbia Icefield - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia Icefield is the largest ice field in North America's Rocky Mountains. [1] Located within the Canadian Rocky Mountains astride the Continental Divide along the border of British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, the ice field lies partly in the northwestern tip of Banff National Park and partly in the southern end of Jasper National Park.

  3. Athabasca Glacier - Wikipedia

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    The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies.The glacier currently loses depth at a rate of about 5 metres (16 ft) per year [2] and has receded more than 1.5 km (0.93 mi) and lost over half of its volume in the past 125 years.

  4. Columbia Glacier (Alaska) - Wikipedia

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    The Columbia Glacier, a glacier in Prince William Sound on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska, is one of the fastest moving glaciers in the world, and has been retreating since the early 1980s. It was named after Columbia University, one of several glaciers in the area named for elite U.S. colleges by the Harriman Alaska Expedition in ...

  5. Snow Dome (Canada) - Wikipedia

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    Snow Dome is a mountain located on the Continental Divide in the Columbia Icefield, where the boundary of Banff National Park and Jasper National Park meets the border of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada. [3] The summit's elevation is 3,456 m (11,339 ft).

  6. Banff National Park - Wikipedia

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    Snow Dome, in the Columbia Icefield is a hydrological apex of North America, with water flowing via outlet glaciers to the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. [55] Saskatchewan Glacier, which is approximately 13 km (8 mi) in length and 30 km 2 (12 sq mi) in area, [53] is the major outlet of the Columbia Icefield that flows into Banff National ...

  7. About a watershed: New book tells the story of the Columbia ...

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    Up north, he scrambled around on the Columbia Icefield, a frozen landscape in the Canadian Rockies. At Kettle Falls, he attended a first salmon ceremony. In southern Yellowstone National Park, a ...

  8. New Columbia rink offers a twist on ice skating. What else ...

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    Synthetic ice will allow year-round skating close to Columbia State Historic Park.

  9. Mount Andromeda (Alberta) - Wikipedia

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    Mount Andromeda is located within the Columbia Icefield on the boundary of Banff and Jasper national parks. The mountain can be seen from the Icefields Parkway (#93) near Sunwapta Pass and is 2.3 km WSW of Mount Athabasca. Mt. Andromeda was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson, former president of the Alpine Club of Canada, after Andromeda, the wife of ...