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However, the False Creek Tunnel, part of the Canada Line rail-based transit system in Vancouver, at 29 m (95 ft) below sea level, is the lowest publicly accessible point in Canada. [16] Parts of Richmond, British Columbia are below sea-level, though behind dikes. [citation needed]
Raftsmen's Acropolis, a rock face of the Montagne des Érables, Quebec, Canada, 800 m; Rockwall, Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, Canada, 30 km of mostly unbroken cliffs up to 900 m [11] All walls of the Stawamus Chief, Squamish, British Columbia, Canada, up to 500 m; Calvert Cliffs along the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, U.S. 25 m
Most distinctly in the view from the cliffs at Sawyer's Bay the Giant appears to have an Adam's Apple. The formation is part of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. Its dramatic steep cliffs are among the highest in Ontario (250 m). The southernmost point is known as Thunder Cape, depicted by many early Canadian artists such as William Armstrong.
Mount Logan in the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon is the highest peak of Canada. The following sortable table comprises the 150 highest mountain peaks of Canada with at least 500 metres (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. [a] The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Niagara Escarpment (in red) Rattlesnake Point near Milton, Ontario The Niagara River has carved the Niagara Gorge through the Niagara Escarpment over thousands of years. The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States that starts from the south shore of Lake Ontario westward, circumscribes the top of the Great Lakes Basin running from New York through ...
This name was chosen by Elizabeth Simcoe, who was the wife of the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe. The escarpment along Lake Ontario reminded Elizabeth Simcoe of the limestone cliffs in her hometown. In her diary, she wrote, "The shore is extremely bold and has the appearance of chalk cliffs, but I believe they are ...
The Smoking Hills are located on the east coast of Cape Bathurst [1] in Canada's Northwest Territories, next to the Arctic Ocean and a small group of lakes. The cliffs were named by explorer John Franklin, [2] who was the first European to see them on his 1826 expeditions.