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Moraine Lake is a snow and glacially fed lake in Banff National Park, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) outside the village of Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada. It is situated in the Valley of the Ten Peaks , at an elevation of approximately 1,884 metres (6,181 ft).
Valley of the Ten Peaks (French: Vallée des Dix Pics) is a valley in Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada, which is crowned by ten notable peaks and also includes Moraine Lake. The valley can be reached by following the Moraine Lake road near Lake Louise .
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Rogen moraine – Sweden, Norway; Lake Rogen – Sweden; Pulju moraine – Finland; Salpausselkä – Finland; Sevetti moraine – Finland; Trollgarden – Norway; Veiki moraine – Sweden, Norway; Raet - Norway, Sweden, Finland; La Serra morainic amphitheater of Ivrea - Piedmont, Italy
Moraine-dammed lake – Type of lake formed by glaciation; Terminal moraine – Type of moraine that forms at the terminal of a glacier; Rogen moraine – Landform of ridges deposited by a glacier or ice sheet transverse to ice flow; Kame; Moraine examples. Dogger Bank – Large sandbank in the North Sea; Kettle Moraine – Large moraine in ...
Banff National Park is Canada's first national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park.Located in Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 110–180 kilometres (68–112 mi) west of Calgary, Banff encompasses 6,641 square kilometres (2,564 sq mi) [3] of mountainous terrain, with many glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes.
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The lake, formed as a natural moraine reservoir, has a catchment area of 44.3 km 2 (17.1 sq mi), it is 3.7 km (2.3 mi) long (E-W) and average of 700 m (2,300 ft) width (N-S), the original depth was about 75 m (246 ft), but today the level has been lowered ca. 15 m (49 ft) to prevent the collapse of the moraine. The water from the lake was ...