Block Mountain
Block Mountain is a mountain located in the Sawback Range in Alberta, Canada. It was named Block Mountain in 1958 because vertical fractures, of which part of the mountain is made, look like they are composed of giant blocks, and are known as block mountains.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Block Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,935 metres
- Description: mountain in Alberta, Canada
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.37839° or 51° 22′ 42″ northLongitude
-115.85082° or 115° 51′ 3″ westElevation
2,935 metres (9,629 feet)Open location code
953694HX+9MOpenStreetMap ID
node 2689320526OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Block Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Block Mountain (bukid sa Canada)”
- Cebuano: “Block Mountain”
- Dutch: “Block Mountain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بلوك”
- Ladin: “Block Mountain”
- Swedish: “Block Mountain (berg i Kanada)”
- Swedish: “Block Mountain, Alberta”
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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 “Block Mountain”. Photo: JakubFrys, CC BY-SA 4.0.