Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation

Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is an office in Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia. Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation is situated nearby to Yoho National Park Fire Station No. 1, as well as near St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mount Burgess and Mount Stephen.

Mount Burgess

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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. Mount Burgess is situated 3 km northwest of Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation.

Mount Stephen

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Mount Stephen, 3,199 m, is a mountain located in the Kicking Horse River Valley of Yoho National Park, 1⁄2 km east of Field, British Columbia, Canada. The mountain was named in 1886 for George Stephen, the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Mount Stephen is situated 3½ km east of Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation.

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.

Burgess Shale Geoscience Foundation

Type: Office
Location: Columbia-Shuswap Regional District, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

51.39679° or 51° 23′ 48″ north

Longitude

-116.48713° or 116° 29′ 14″ west

Open location code

95359GW7+P4

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4840384752

OpenStreetMap feature

office=yes

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Yoho National Park Fire Station No. 1 and St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church.

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