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Mount Alderson is a 2,692-metre (8,832-foot) summit located in Waterton Lakes National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Custer, 8.0 km (5.0 mi) to the southwest. [1] Mount Richards is situated 2.0 km (1.2 mi) to the southeast, and Bertha Peak is to the immediate northeast.
Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning 11,000 km 2 (4,200 sq mi). It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site in 1984. Its location is north of Banff National Park and west of Edmonton.
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.
Banff is a resort town in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, in Alberta's Rockies along the Trans-Canada Highway, 126 km (78 mi) west of Calgary, 58 km (36 mi) east of Lake Louise, and 1,400 to 1,630 m (4,590 to 5,350 ft) above sea level. [5] Banff was the first municipality to incorporate within a Canadian national park.
Commemorative plate. In 1983 Canada nominated Banff, Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho national parks for inclusion on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. UNESCO accepted this nomination in 1984 on the basis of a recommendation by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Mount Victoria, 3,464 metres (11,365 ft), is a mountain on the border between British Columbia and Alberta in the Canadian Rockies.It is located just northeast of Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park [5] and is also part of Banff National Park and is on the Continental Divide (which is the definition of the interprovincial boundary in this region).
It is the southernmost mountain in the Canadian Rockies, situated only 500 metres north of the Canada–United States border. It was named after Forum Lake below the mountain. [ 1 ] It is visible from the end of Highway 5 at Cameron Lake, which is within Waterton Lakes National Park , and the mountain is on the park's southwest border.
Roche Miette (/ r ɒ ʃ m aɪ ˈ ɛ t /) is a 2,316-metre (7,598-foot) mountain at the northwestern tip of the Miette Range in Jasper National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. The peak is a prominent landmark in the Athabasca Valley that is situated approximately thirty kilometres north-northeast of the municipality of Jasper ...