Hector Glacier
Hector Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The glacier is on the north slope of Mount Hector and extends northward for 3 km. In 1938, a large mass of the glacier broke off and covered the valley below with ice up to 60 m thick.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Hector.
Mount Hector
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Mount Hector is a 3,394-metre mountain summit located in the Bow River valley of Banff National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. The mountain was named in 1884 by George M.
Hector Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 2,533 metres
- Description: glacier in Banff National Park, Canada
- Category: landform
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Hector Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hector Glacier”
- Esperanto: “Glaĉero Hektoro”
- French: “glacier Hector”
- French: “Glacier Hector”
- Hebrew: “קרחון הקטור”
- Japanese: “ヘクター氷河”
- Swedish: “Hector Glacier (glaciär i Kanada)”
- Swedish: “Hector Glacier”
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