Bow Glacier
Bow Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately 37 km northwest of Lake Louise. It can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Thompson and Mount Rhondda.
Mount Thompson
Peak
Photo: Antony Stanley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mount Thompson is a 3,089-metre mountain summit located four kilometres west of Bow Lake in Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada.
Mount Rhondda
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Rhondda is located on the Continental Divide straddling the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia. It was named in 1917 by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey after David Alfred Thomas, First Viscount Baron Rhondda. Mount Rhondda is situated 4 km west of Bow Glacier.
Bow Hut
Mountain hut
The Bow Hut is an alpine hut located at an elevation of 2,350 metres on the eastern edge of the Wapta Icefield in Banff National Park. It is the largest, best equipped, and most accessible of the four alpine huts on the Wapta Icefield, and serves as the base for a wide variety of ski tours and mountaineering ascents to half a dozen peaks on the Wapta.
Bow Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 2,345 metres
- Description: glacier in Alberta, Canada
- Category: landform
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
Discover Bow Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Bow Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Bow Glacier”
- French: “glacier Bow”
- French: “Glacier Bow”
- Hebrew: “קרחון בואו”
- Japanese: “ボウ氷河”
- Korean: “보우 빙하”
- Serbian: “Боу (глечер)”
- Serbian: “Боу”
- Swedish: “Bow Glacier”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Cathedral and Hector.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Portal Peak and Wapta Icefield.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Bow Glacier”. Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.