Wapta Mountain
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Smith609, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Walcott Quarry and Mount Field.
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.
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.
Emerald Lake
Lake
Photo: Kadellar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
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.
Wapta Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,778 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
51.44954° or 51° 26′ 58″ northLongitude
-116.4767° or 116° 28′ 36″ westElevation
2,778 metres (9,114 feet)Open location code
9535CGXF+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 2696731139OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Wapta Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wapta Mountain”
- Dutch: “Wapta Mountain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل واپتا”
- Hebrew: “הר ואפטה”
- Japanese: “ワプタ山”
- Ladin: “Wapta Mountain”
- Swedish: “Wapta Mountain”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Walcott Quarry and Burgess Pass.
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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 “Wapta Mountain”. Photo: Smith609, CC BY-SA 3.0.