Mount Burgess

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.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Emerald Lake and Mount Field.

Emerald Lake

Lake

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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.

Mount Field

Peak

Photo: Wilson44691, Public domain.

Mount Field is a mountain located about 4 km northeast of the town of Field in Yoho National Park, Canada. The mountain was named in 1884 after Cyrus West Field, an American merchant who had laid the first Atlantic cable.

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.

Mount Burgess

Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,599 metres
Description: mountain
Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

51.42014° or 51° 25′ 13″ north

Longitude

-116.5052° or 116° 30′ 19″ west

Elevation

2,599 metres (8,527 feet)

Open location code

9535CFCV+3W

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2696731027

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

6080112

Wikidata ID

Q1179454

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Satellite Map

Discover Mount Burgess from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Burgess” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Mount Burgess”
Chinese: “伯吉斯山”
Czech: “Mount Burgess”
Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت بورجيس”
French: “mont Burgess”
French: “Mont Burgess”
German: “Mount Burgess”
Hungarian: “Burgess-hegység”
Hungarian: “Mount Burgess”
Japanese: “バージェス山”
Ladin: “Mount Burgess”
Russian: “Бёрджесс (гора)”
Russian: “Бёрджесс”
Swedish: “Mount Burgess”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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