Vulture Glacier
Vulture Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, northwest of Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway. Vulture Glacier is an outflow glacier from the Wapta Icefield, which rests along the Continental Divide.Photo: Jeffrey Pang, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Olive and Crowfoot Mountain.
Mount Olive
Peak
Mount Olive is located N of the head of the Yoho River on the Continental Divide, on the Alberta-British Columbia border, in both Banff National Park and Yoho National Park. Mount Olive is situated 2½ km northwest of Vulture Glacier.
Crowfoot Mountain
Peak
Photo: Florian Fuchs, CC BY 3.0.
Crowfoot Mountain is a mountain within Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. The Crowfoot Glacier sits on the northeastern flank of the mountain. The mountain was named in 1959 after the glacier. Crowfoot Mountain is situated 3½ km northeast of Vulture Glacier.
Mount Balfour
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mount Balfour is a mountain located on the Continental Divide, part of the border between British Columbia and Alberta, in the Waputik Range in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies. Mount Balfour is situated 3½ km south of Vulture Glacier.
Vulture Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 2,473 metres
- Description: glacier on boundary between Alberta and British Columbia in Canada
- Category: landform
- Location: Alberta, Prairies, Canada, North America
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Vulture Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Vulture Glacier”
- Esperanto: “Glaĉero Vulturo”
- German: “Vulture-Gletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון ולטשר (אלברטה)”
- Hebrew: “קרחון ולטשר”
- Japanese: “バルチャー氷河”
- Swedish: “Vulture Glacier (glaciär i Kanada)”
- Swedish: “Vulture Glacier, Kanada”
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