Anthracite
Anthracite is a ghost town located within Banff National Park in southern Alberta, Canada. It is named after the anthracite variety of coal.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: ghost town in Alberta, Canada
- Also known as: “Anthracite, Alberta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Johnson Lake and Banff Airport.
Banff Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Shawn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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 west of Calgary, Banff encompasses 6,641 square kilometres of mountainous terrain, with many glaciers and ice fields, dense coniferous forest, and alpine landscapes. Banff Airport is situated 3½ km northwest of Anthracite.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Banff.
Banff
Photo: Audree, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The town of Banff in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies, is the larger of the two populated areas in Banff National Park, about an hour and a half drive west of Calgary and four hours south of Jasper.
Anthracite
- Category: ghost town
- Location: Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.19297° or 51° 11′ 35″ northLongitude
-115.49327° or 115° 29′ 36″ westElevation
1,382 metres (4,534 feet)Open location code
95365GV4+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 3609772721OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Uzbek—“Anthracite” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “انثراسايت”
- Uzbek: “Antrasit, Alberta”
- Uzbek: “Antrasit”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Downtown District and Harvie Heights.
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Highlights include Banff Hoodoos Viewpoint and Path to Hoodoos.
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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 “Anthracite”. Photo: JakubFrys, CC BY-SA 4.0.