Abbot Pass
Abbot Pass lies between Mount Lefroy and Mount Victoria, in the divide between the valleys of Lake O'Hara and Lake Louise. It was named for Philip Stanley Abbot who died in 1896 in an attempt to climb Mount Lefroy with Charles Fay, Charles Thompson, and George T.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Lefroy and Lake Oesa.
Mount Lefroy
Peak
Photo: Ron Clausen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Lefroy is a mountain on the Continental Divide, at the border of Alberta and British Columbia in western Canada. The mountain is located on the eastern side of Abbot Pass which separates Lake Louise in Banff National Park from Lake O'Hara in Yoho National Park. Mount Victoria lies immediately on the western side of the pass.
Lake Oesa
Lake
Photo: WikiPedant, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lake Oesa is a body of water located at an elevation of 2,267 metres in the mountains of Yoho National Park, near Field, British Columbia, Canada, while a trail at the far end of the lake leads to Abbot Pass.
Mount Huber
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount Huber is a 3,348-metre summit located two kilometres east of Lake O'Hara in the Bow Range of Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
Abbot Pass
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 2,823 metres
- Description: mountain pass on border of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.364° or 51° 21′ 50″ northLongitude
-116.2896° or 116° 17′ 23″ westElevation
2,823 metres (9,262 feet)Open location code
95359P76+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 3621025835OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Abbot Pass” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Abbot Pass”
- Hebrew: “מעבר אבוט”
- Swedish: “Abbot Pass”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Abbot Pass”. Photo: JakubFrys, CC BY-SA 4.0.