Helmcken Falls
Helmcken Falls is a 141 m waterfall on the Murtle River within Wells Gray Provincial Park in British Columbia, Canada. The protection of Helmcken Falls was one of the reasons for the creation of Wells Gray Provincial Park in 1939.
Helmcken Falls
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Wells Gray Provincial Park, British Columbia, Canada
- Category: body of water
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.95406° or 51° 57′ 15″ north
Longitude
-120.17693° or 120° 10′ 37″ west
Elevation
748 metres (2,454 feet)
Height
141 metres (463 feet)
Open location code
943XXR3F+J6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Helmcken Falls” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հելմկեն ջրվեժ”
- Catalan: “Cascades Helmcken”
- Catalan: “Helmcken Falls”
- Chinese: “赫尔姆肯瀑布”
- Dutch: “Helmcken Falls”
- Dutch: “Helmckenwaterval”
- Dutch: “Helmckenwatervallen”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيلمكين فالس”
- French: “chutes Helmcken”
- French: “Chutes Helmcken”
- French: “Helmcken Falls”
- German: “Helmcken Falls”
- Persian: “آبشار هلمکن”
- Persian: “ابشار هلمکن”
- Russian: “Хелмкен (водопад)”
- Russian: “Хелмкен”
- Ukrainian: “Гелмкен (водоспад)”
- Ukrainian: “Гелмкен”
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