Columbia Icefield

T Columbia Icefield icefield located Canadian Rockies, astride Continental Divide North America. T icefield partly northwestern p Banff southern Jasper National P. I about 325 ² area, 100 365 metres (328' 1,197') depth receives p seven metres (23 ) snowfall p y. T icefield feeds eight major glaciers, including:

Stutfield Glacier, Saskatchewan Gier, Castleguard Glacier, Columbia Glacier, Athabasca Glacier, D Glacier



P icefield, Athabasca Glacier, visible Icefields Parkway. T Athabasca Glacier receded significantly since greatest modern- extent 1844. During summer months visitors travel glacier comfort large "snowcoaches".

T icefield first reported 1898 y J. Norman Collie Hermann Woolley after y completed first ascent Mount Athabasca.

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