Emerald Lake
Emerald Lake is a freshwater lake in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. Yoho National Park is one of the four contiguous national parks in Canada's Rocky Mountains, along the boundary of British Columbia and Alberta Provinces.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Burgess and Wapta Mountain.
Mount Burgess
Peak
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Mount Burgess, 2,599 m, is a mountain in Yoho National Park and is part of the President Range in the Canadian Rockies. It is located in the southwest buttress of Burgess Pass in the Emerald River and Kicking Horse River Valleys.
Wapta Mountain
Peak
Photo: Smith609, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wapta Mountain is a mountain located in the Canadian Rockies between Emerald Lake and Yoho Valley in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. It stands just north of the ridge containing the Burgess Shale fossil beds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Field and Yoho National Park.
Field
Photo: Royalbroil, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Field is a cozy mountain village located in Yoho National Park within the Canadian Rockies in Canada. The town served as a base for workers on the Canadian Pacific Railway in its early days, and now hosts a small community of about 170, in addition to hosting the Yoho Park administration building and a number of quaint gift shops, restaurants, and small accommodations.
Yoho National Park
Photo: HylgeriaK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Yoho National Park is British Columbia's sister to Alberta's Banff National Park, a world heritage site, on the western side of the continental divide that separates the two provinces.
Emerald Lake
- Type: Lake
- Description: lake in Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada
- Category: body of water
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.44374° or 51° 26′ 38″ northLongitude
-116.53322° or 116° 31′ 60″ westElevation
1,298 metres (4,259 feet)Open location code
9535CFV8+FPOpenStreetMap ID
way 429418878OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
5948547Wikidata ID
Q316177
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“Emerald Lake” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Զմրուխտե լիճ”
- Cebuano: “Emerald Lake (lanaw sa Canada, British Columbia, lat 51,44, long -116,53)”
- Cebuano: “Emerald Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بحيره اميرالد”
- French: “Emerald Lake”
- French: “Lac Emerald”
- French: “lac Émeraude”
- French: “Lac Émeraude”
- Hebrew: “אגם אמרלד”
- Spanish: “Lago Emerald”
- Swedish: “Emerald Lake, British Columbia”
- Swedish: “Emerald Lake”
- Urdu: “ایمرلڈ جھیل، برٹش کولمبیا”
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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 “Emerald Lake”. Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.