Howse Peak

Howse Peak is the highest mountain in the Waputik Mountains, a subrange of the Canadian Rockies. It is located 5 km west of the Icefields Parkway, above Chephren Lake, on the continental divide between Alberta and British Columbia.

Photo: Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Synge and Midway Peak.

Mount Synge

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Mount Synge is located NE of the head of the Blaeberry River and straddles the Continental Divide marking the Alberta-British Columbia border in the Canadian Rockies. It was named in 1918 after Captain Millington Henry Synge, British Army officer and author.

Midway Peak

Peak

Photo: Eggbones, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Midway Peak is a 2,923 metres mountain summit located on the Continental Divide, on the shared border of Alberta and British Columbia in the Canadian Rockies.

Mount Chephren

Peak

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Mount Chephren is a mountain located in the Mistaya River valley of Banff National Park, Canada. Mount Chephren was named after Chephren, the 4th dynasty Egyptian pharaoh.

Howse Peak

Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,295 metres
Description: mountain on border of Alberta and British Columbia in Canada
Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Improvement District No. 9, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude

51.8134° or 51° 48′ 48″ north

Longitude

-116.68072° or 116° 40′ 51″ west

Elevation

3,295 metres (10,810 feet)

Open location code

9535R879+9P

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2697236463

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

5977980

Wikidata ID

Q5922572

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Satellite Map

Discover Howse Peak from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Catalan to Venetian—“Howse Peak” goes by many names.

Catalan: “Howse Peak”
Cebuano: “Howse Peak”
Czech: “Howse Peak”
Dutch: “Howse Peak”
Egyptian Arabic: “جبل هوس پياك”
German: “Howse Peak”
Hebrew: “פסגת הואוס”
Italian: “Howse Peak”
Japanese: “ハウス・ピーク”
Ladin: “Howse Peak”
Slovak: “Howse Peak”
Swedish: “Howse Peak”
Venetian: “Howse Peak”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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