The Fortress
The Fortress is a mountain located SE of Gusty Peak in the Kananaskis River Valley of Kananaskis Park of the Canadian Rockies. When viewed from Highway 40, the north face presents a fortress like appearance.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Galatea and Mount Chester.
Mount Galatea
Peak
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Mount Galatea is the highest peak of the Kananaskis Range, a subrange of the Canadian Rockies in the province of Alberta. It is located in the upper Spray Lakes Valley of the Kananaskis Country system of provincial parks.
Mount Chester
Peak
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Mount Chester is a mountain located in the Smith-Dorrien Creek Valley of Kananaskis in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain was named in 1917 after HMS Chester, which was severely damaged in the Battle of Jutland. Chester Lake is located in a small valley just northwest of the base of the mountain.
Chester Lake
Lake
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Chester Lake is a small lake in the Alberta side of the Canadian Rockies. It is located in the valley north west of Mount Chester in Spray Valley Provincial Park, Kananaskis Country in Alberta, Canada.
The Fortress
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,000 metres
- Description: mountain in Alberta, Canada
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Kananaskis Improvement District, Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Latitude
50.82842° or 50° 49′ 42″ northLongitude
-115.24324° or 115° 14′ 36″ westElevation
3,000 metres (9,843 feet)Open location code
9526RQH4+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 269838257OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“The Fortress” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “The Fortress (bukid sa Canada)”
- Cebuano: “The Fortress”
- Dutch: “The Fortress”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل ذا فورتريس”
- French: “The Fortress”
- Swedish: “The Fortress (berg i Kanada)”
- Swedish: “The Fortress”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fortress Southern Outlier and Fortress Lake.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “The Fortress”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.