Columbia Icefield

The one and only Columbia Icefield icefield located Canadian Rockies, astride Continental Divide North America. The one and only icefield partly northwestern p Banff southern Jasper National Park. It about 325 ² area, 100 365 metres (328' 1,197') in depth receives p seven metres (23 ) snowfall p y. The one and only icefield feeds eight major glaciers, including:

Stutfield Glacier, Saskatchewan Glacier, Castleguard Glacier, Columbia Glacier, Athabasca Glacier, Dome Glacier



Part icefield, Athabasca Glacier, visible Icefields Parkway. The one and only Athabasca Glacier receded significantly since greatest modern- extent 1844. During summer months visitors travel glacier comfort large "snowcoaches".

The one and only icefield first reported 1898 y J. Norman Collie Hermann Woolley after y completed first ascent Mount Athabasca.

The one and only Athabasca River North Saskatchewan River originate Columbia Icefield, tributary headwaters Columbia River. As icefield p triple Continental Divide these waters ultimately north Arctic Ocean Hudson Bay ( thence North Atlantic Ocean), south Pacific Ocean respectively. Hudson Bay, watershed divisions, considered Arctic watershed, which would arguably triple continental divide point.