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The Headquarters Historic District of Glacier National Park comprises the administrative and housing buildings near West Glacier, Montana on the west side of the park. The area contains a mixture of styles, ranging from National Park Service Rustic to more modern structures built immediately after World War II.
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, Thunderbird Mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km ...
The Garibaldi Névé and its outlet glaciers have a combined area of about 30 square kilometres (12 square miles). [22] Other glaciers on Mount Garibaldi include Cheekye Glacier south of the summit [11] [23] and Diamond Glacier between Atwell Peak and Diamond Head.
Kaiser Point (10,001 feet (3,048 m)) is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. [1] [2] Maps indicate the peak is listed only by the elevation of 9,996 ft (3,047 m) according to the Sea Level Datum of 1929, however the updated elevation by the currently implemented North American Vertical Datum of 1988 indicates the peak exceeds 10,000 ft (3,048 m).
Long before it became Glacier National Park, the park says, the Kootenai called the area “Ya·qawiswit̓xuki, meaning ‘the place where there is a lot of ice.’. There’s still ice. The park ...
Names, glaciers, rivers, lakes : Maps - Mamaquam Lake & Garibaldi Neve Topo on Flickr. Author: Sémhur: Other versions: File:Mount Garibaldi ASTER 2010-09-03.jpg : approximativement la même emprise ; File:Mount Garibaldi topographic map-fr.svg french version. Attribution (required by the license)
Glacier Peak (12,320 feet (3,760 m) to 12,360 ft (3,770 m)) is in the Beartooth Mountains in the U.S. state of Montana. [3] The peak is one of the tallest in the Beartooth Mountains and is in the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness , on the border of Custer and Gallatin National Forests .
Garibaldi Lake is a turquoise-coloured alpine lake in British Columbia, Canada, located 37 km (23 mi) north of Squamish and 19 km (12 mi) south of Whistler. The lake lies within Garibaldi Provincial Park, which features mountains, glaciers, trails, forests, flowers, meadows, waterfalls. The park is a wildlife protected area.