Mount Afton
Mount Afton is a 2,553-metre mountain summit located in Glacier National Park in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It is situated near the north end of Asulkan Ridge, 8 km south of Rogers Pass, 56 km northeast of Revelstoke, and 40 km west of Golden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Glacier National Park and Mount Abbott.
Glacier National Park
Photo: The Interior, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glacier National Park is a Canadian national park in the Columbia-Rockies region of Canada. It encompasses a portion of the Columbia Mountains, and the Rogers Pass National Historic Site.
Mount Abbott
Peak
Mount Abbott is a mountain in British Columbia, Canada, located within Glacier National Park. The peak is west of the Asulkan Creek drainage, near Rogers Pass.
Glacier
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Glacier, which once comprised small communities, is on the western approach to Rogers Pass in southeastern British Columbia. The name derives from the Great Glacier, which in the 1880s was just over a mile from the original train station.
Mount Afton
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,921 metres
- Description: mountain in British Columbia, Canada
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
51.23543° or 51° 14′ 8″ northLongitude
-117.5133° or 117° 30′ 48″ westElevation
1,921 metres (6,302 feet)Open location code
95346FPP+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 4529547896OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Afton” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Afton”
- Dutch: “Mount Afton”
- Swedish: “Mount Afton”
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