Mount Field
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.Photo: Wilson44691, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Walcott Quarry and Wapta Mountain.
Walcott Quarry
Paleontological site
The Walcott Quarry is the most famous quarry of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, bearing the Phyllopod beds.
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.
Mount Burgess
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.
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 Field
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,643 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
51.43077° or 51° 25′ 51″ northLongitude
-116.46288° or 116° 27′ 46″ westElevation
2,643 metres (8,671 feet)Open location code
9535CGJP+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 2696731047OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bosnian to Swedish—“Mount Field” goes by many names.
- Bosnian: “Planina Field (Britanska Kolumbija)”
- Bosnian: “Planina Field”
- Cebuano: “Mount Field (bukid sa Canada)”
- Cebuano: “Mount Field”
- Danish: “Mount Field”
- Dutch: “Mount Field”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت فيلد”
- Hebrew: “הר פילד (קולומביה הבריטית)”
- Hebrew: “הר פילד”
- Japanese: “フィールド山”
- Ladin: “Mount Field”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Field”
- Swedish: “Mount Field, British Columbia”
- Swedish: “Mount Field”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Walcott Quarry and Burgess Pass.
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