Boundary Ranges

Boundary Ranges

The Boundary Ranges, also known in the singular and as the Alaska Boundary Range, are the largest and most northerly subrange of the Coast Mountains...

• Juneau Icefield
  Juneau Icefield
  The Juneau Icefield is an ice field located just north of Juneau, Alaska and continues north through the border with British Columbia and is the fifth-largest ice field in the Western Hemisphere, extending through an area of in the Coast Range ranging north to south and east to west. The...
  
  
  • Llewellyn Glacier
• Hang Ten Icefield
• Stikine Icecap
  Stikine Icecap
  The Stikine Icecap is a large icefield straddled on the Alaska–British Columbia boundary in the Alaska Panhandle region. It lies in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains...
  
  
  • Great Glacier
• Chutine Icefield
• Cambria Icefield
  Cambria Icefield
  The Cambria Icefield is an icefield in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains in northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located southeast of Stewart....
  
  
• Salmon Glacier
  Salmon Glacier
  The Salmon Glacier is a glacier located ~ north of Stewart, British Columbia, and Hyder, Alaska, just on the Canadian side of the border. The glacier, one of hundreds in the Boundary Ranges, is notable for its major potential as a natural hazard...
  
  

Pacific Ranges

Pacific Ranges

The Pacific Ranges are the southernmost subdivision of the Coast Mountains portion of the Pacific Cordillera. Located entirely within British Columbia, Canada, they run northwest from the lower stretches of the Fraser River to Bella Coola, north of which are the Kitimat Ranges.The Pacific Ranges...

• Monarch Icefield
  Monarch Icefield
  The Monarch Icefield is the northernmost of a series of large continental icecaps studding the heights of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southern British Columbia...
  
  
• Ha-Iltzuk Icefield
  Ha-Iltzuk Icefield
  The Ha-Iltzuk Icefield is an icefield in the central Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest icefield in the Coast Mountains south of the Alaska Panhandle, with an area of . It is located on the west side of the Klinaklini River and the Waddington Range...
  
  
  • Klinaklini Glacier
    Klinaklini Glacier
    The Klinaklini Glacier is a glacier west of the Klinaklini River and head of Knight Inlet in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.-References:...
    
    
  • Silverthrone Glacier
    Silverthrone Glacier
    The Silverthrone Glacier is a glacier at the northwest head of Knight Inlet in southwestern British Columbia, Canada.-References:...
    
    
• Waddington Massif
  Waddington Range
  The Waddington Range is a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is only about 4000 km² in area, relatively small in area within the expanse of the range, but it is the highest area of the Pacific Ranges and of the Coast Mountains, being...
  
  -Pantheon Range
  Pantheon Range
  The Pantheon Range is a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia. It is located between the edge of the Chilcotin Plateau at Tatla Lake on its northeast and the Klinaklini River on its west, with a southeastern boundary along Mosley Creek, a major tributary of the...
  
  -Whitemantle Range
  Whitemantle Range
  The Whitemantle Range is a subrange of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia. Located between the heads of Bute Inlet on the east and Knight Inlet on the west, it is extremely rugged and glaciated...
  
  
  • Waddington Glacier
    Waddington Glacier
    Waddington Glacier is a tributary glacier, 3 nautical miles long, flowing west-northwest along the south side of Ugolini Peak, Colwell Massif, to enter Palais Glacier, Victoria Land. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 1994 after Edwin D...
    
    
  • Tiedemann Glacier
  • Scimitar Glacier
  • Parallel Glacier
  • Franklin Glacier
    Franklin Glacier Volcano
    Franklin Glacier Volcano is a deeply eroded and huge long and wide caldera complex in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located east-southeast of the Silverthrone Caldera in the Hoodoo Creek and Franklin Glacier area on the northwest flank of the Waddington Massif of the Pacific Ranges...
    
    
  • Bell Glacier
    Bell Glacier
    Bell Glacier is a glacier draining northward into Maury Bay immediately eastward of Blair Glacier. It was mapped by G.D. Blodgett from aerial photographs taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump , and named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Thomas G...
    
    
  • Cannonade Glacier
  • Remote Glacier
  • Shadow Glacier
  • Fan Glacier
  • Geddes Glacier
  • Chaos Glacier
    Chaos Glacier
    Chaos Glacier is a glacier south of Browns Glacier, flowing westward from Ingrid Christensen Coast into the central part of Ranvik Bay. It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition , and named by John H. Roscoe in a 1952 study of U.S. Navy...
    
    
  • Radiant Glacier
  • Cataract Glacier
  • Isolation Glacier
  • Shiverick Glacier
  • Malemute Glacier
  • Sunrise Glacier
    Sunrise Glacier
    Sunrise Glacier is located in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is situated in the Mission Mountains at an elevation of above sea level and is east of Mount Shoemaker. The glacier covers approximately ....
    
    
  • Tellot Glacier
  • Smoking Cannon Glacier
  • Jambeau Glacier
  • Chanterelle Glacier
  • Yataghan Glacier
  • Jubilee Glacier
  • Chasm Glacier
  • Lemolo Glacier
  • Marvel Glacier
  • Splinter Glacier
  • Dauntless Glacier
  • Cascade Glacier
  • Whitemantle Glacier
• Homathko Icefield
  Homathko Icefield
  The Homathko Icefield is an icefield in British Columbia, Canada. Officially named the Homathko Snowfield from 1950 until the current name was adopted in 1976, it is one of the largest icefields in the southern half of the Coast Mountains, with an area of over...
  
  
• Lillooet Icecap
  Lillooet Icecap
  The Lillooet Icecap, also called the Lillooet Icefield or the Lillooet Crown, is a large icefield in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is about northwest of the towns of Pemberton and Whistler, and about north of Vancouver, British Columbia...
  
  
  • Lord Glacier
    Lord Glacier
    Lord Glacier is a glacier about 6 nautical miles long draining from Coulter Heights to Hull Bay. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Neal E. Lord, geophysicist, University of Wisconsin, whose research focused on theoretical and field analysis of Ice Stream area of West...
    
    
  • Tchaikazan Glacier
  • Stanley Smith Glacier
  • Frank Smith Glacier
  • Bridge Glacier
  • Lillooet Glacier
  • Necwtinoaz Glacier
  • Magaera Glacier
  • Qwilqen Glacier
  • Stalhalam Glacier
• Compton Névé
  Compton Névé
  The Compton Névé is an icefield in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located east of the Homathko Icefield and Mount Gilbert and to the south of the Bishop River...
  
  
  • Ring Glacier
• Pemberton Icefield
  Pemberton Icefield
  The Pemberton Icefield, also known unofficially as the Pemberton Icecap, is the southernmost of the series of very large icefields studding the Pacific Ranges of the southern Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada...
  
  
  • Overseer Icefield
• Ipsoot Icefield
• Powder Mountain Icefield
  Powder Mountain Icefield
  The Powder Mountain Icefield, also called the Powder Mountain Icecap and the Cayley Icefield, is a glacial field in the Pacific Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, about west of Whistler and about north of Vancouver...
  
  
• Rainbow Glacier
  Rainbow Glacier
  Rainbow Glacier is located in the U.S. state of Montana in Glacier National Park. The glacier is situated immediately to the east of Rainbow Peak at an elevation between and above sea level. The glacier covers an area of approximately and has visible crevasses in satellite imagery...
  
  
• Plateau Icefield

Garibaldi Ranges

Garibaldi Ranges

The Garibaldi Ranges are the next-to-southwesternmost subdivision of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains; only the North Shore Mountains are farther south. They lie between the valley formed by the pass between the Cheakamus River and Green River on the west and the valley of the Lillooet...

• Armchair Glacier
• Wedge Glacier
• Spearhead Glacier
  Spearhead Glacier
  The Spearhead Glacier is the largest glacier on the Spearhead Range, located on the opposite, northeast side of that range from the resort town of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, and is serviced in part by the lift system of the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort. The glacier's apex is at the peak...
  
  
• Blackcomb Glacier
• Overlord Glacier
• Spearhead Glacier
  Spearhead Glacier
  The Spearhead Glacier is the largest glacier on the Spearhead Range, located on the opposite, northeast side of that range from the resort town of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, and is serviced in part by the lift system of the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort. The glacier's apex is at the peak...
  
  
• Garibaldi Névé
  Garibaldi Névé
  The Garibaldi Névé is a large icefield in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located on the eastern flank of Mount Garibaldi.-References:...
  
  
• Mamquam Icefield
  Mamquam Icefield
  The Mamquam Icefield is an icefield in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, located at the headwaters of Skookum Creek. It lies at the southern end of Garibaldi Provincial Park and is one of the southernmost icefields in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains. The highest summit of the...
  
  
• Misty Icefield
  Misty Icefield
  The Misty Icefield is a high glaciated plateau in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains. It is located in the eastern part of Garibaldi Provincial Park and the northern portion of Golden Ears Provincial Park...
  
  
• Stave Glacier
• Snowcap Icefield

Purcell Mountains

Purcell Mountains

The Purcell Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. They are a subrange of the Columbia Mountains, which includes the Selkirk, Monashee, and Cariboo Mountains. They are located on the west side of the Rocky Mountain Trench in the area of the Columbia Valley, and on...

• Bugaboo Glacier
• Commander Glacier
• Durrand Glacier
• Farnham Glacier
• Jumbo Glacier
• Macbeth Icefield
• Conrad Icefield

Selkirk Mountains

Selkirk Mountains

The Selkirk Mountains are a mountain range spanning the northern portion of the Idaho Panhandle, eastern Washington, and southeastern British Columbia. They begin at Mica Peak near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho and extend approximately 320 km north from the border. The range is bounded on its west,...

• Caribou Glacier
  Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park
  Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park is one of the oldest provincial parks in British Columbia, established in 1922. The park has an area of and is located in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenays region of BC...
  
  
• Kokanee Glacier
• Illecillewaet Névé
  • Illecillewaet Glacier
• Albert Icefield
• Clachnacudainn Icefield
• Gyr Icefield
• Primrose Icefield
• Bonney Névé
• Deville Névé
• Duncan Névé
• Goldstream Névé
• Sonata Névé
• Van Horne Névé
• Woodbury Glacier
  Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park
  Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park is one of the oldest provincial parks in British Columbia, established in 1922. The park has an area of and is located in the Selkirk Mountains in the West Kootenays region of BC...
  
  

Canadian Rockies

Canadian Rockies

The Canadian Rockies comprise the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains range. They are the eastern part of the Canadian Cordillera, extending from the Interior Plains of Alberta to the Rocky Mountain Trench of British Columbia. The southern end borders Idaho and Montana of the USA...

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• Angel Glacier
  Angel Glacier
  The Angel Glacier flows down the north face of Mount Edith Cavell in Jasper National Park, Canada.It is named as such because it has the appearance of an angel with out-swept wings. It was much larger when it named in the 19th-century, but as with most glaciers worldwide, it is melting rapidly...
  
   - Jasper National Park, Alberta
• Athabasca Glacier
  Athabasca Glacier
  The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies. The glacier currently recedes at a rate of per year and has receded more than in the past 125 years and lost over half of its volume...
  
   - Jasper National Park, Alberta
• Berg Glacier - Mount Robson Provincial Park, BC
• Bonnet Icefield - Canadian Rockies
• Bow Glacier
  Bow Glacier
  Bow Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately northwest of Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway. Bow Glacier is an outflow glacier from the Wapta Icefield, which rests along the Continental divide, and runoff from the glacier supplies water to...
  
   - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Campbell Icefield
• Chaba Icefield - Canadian Rockies
• Clemenceau Icefield - Canadian Rockies
• Columbia Icefield
  Columbia Icefield
  The Columbia Icefield is an icefield located in the Canadian Rockies, astride the Continental Divide of North America. The icefield lies partly in the northwestern tip of Banff National Park and the southern end of Jasper National Park. It is about 325 km² in area, 100 to 365 metres in depth and...
  
   - Canadian Rockies
• Crowfoot Glacier
  Crowfoot Glacier
  Crowfoot Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, northwest of Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway. The glacier is situated on the northeastern flank of Crowfoot Mountain....
  
   - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Daly Glacier - Yoho National Park, British Columbia
• Dome Glacier - Jasper National Park, Alberta
• Drummond Icefield - Canadian Rockies
• Emerald Glacier - Yoho National Park, British Columbia
• Freshfield Icefield - Canadian Rockies
• Hooker Icefield
• Lloyd George Icefield - Northern Rockies
• Lyell Icefield
• Mons Icefield
• Mount Brown Icefield
• Hector Glacier
  Hector Glacier
  Hector Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The glacier is on the north slope of Mount Hector and extends northward for . In 1938, a large mass of the glacier broke off and covered the valley below with ice up to 60 m thick...
  
   - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Peyto Glacier
  Peyto Glacier
  Peyto Glacier is located in the Canadian Rockies in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately northwest of the town of Banff, and can be accessed from the Icefields Parkway. Peyto Glacier is an outflow glacier from the Wapta Icefield, which rests along the Continental divide...
  
   - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Ram Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Reef Icefield
• Robson Glacier
  Robson Glacier
  The Robson Glacier is the primary source of the short Robson River, one of the uppermost tributaries of the Fraser River. Located on the British Columbia-Alberta Boundary and the Continental Divide to the east of Berg Lake in Mount Robson Provincial Park, it sits on the northeast flank of Mount...
  
   - Mount Robson Provincial Park, BC
• Saskatchewan Glacier
  Saskatchewan Glacier
  Saskatchewan Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, approximately northwest of the town of Banff, and can be accessed from the Icefields Parkway. Saskatchewan Glacier is the largest outflow glacier from the Columbia Icefield, which rests along the Continental divide. The...
  
   - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Vulture Glacier - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Wapta Icefield
  Wapta Icefield
  The Wapta Icefield is located on the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies, in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. The icefield is shared by Banff and Yoho National Parks and numerous outlet glaciers extend from the icefield, including the Vulture, Bow and Peyto Glaciers...
  
   - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Waputik Icefield
  Waputik Icefield
  The Waputik Icefield is located on the Continental divide in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, in the provinces of British Columbia and Alberta. It is developed on the heights of the Waputik Range in the Central Main Ranges....
  
   - Banff National Park, Alberta
• Washmanwapta Icefield
• Yoho Glacier - Yoho National Park, British Columbia

Nunavut

Nunavut

Nunavut is the largest and newest federal territory of Canada; it was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act, though the actual boundaries had been established in 1993...

• Agassiz Ice Cap
  Agassiz Ice Cap
  Agassiz Ice Cap is an ice cap on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.-References:...
  
   - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
• Barnes Ice Cap
  Barnes Ice Cap
  The Barnes Ice Cap is an ice cap located in central Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It covers close to and has been thinning due to regional warming. Between 2004 and 2006, the ice cap was thinning at a rate of per year....
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Benedict Glacier
  Benedict Glacier
  Benedict Glacier is a glacier on central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada....
  
   - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
• Chapman Glacier
  Chapman Glacier
  Chapman Glacier is a glacier at the head of Yule Bay in northern Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions for A. Chapman, a member of the helicopter team in this vicinity during ANARE , 1962, led by Phillip Law....
  
   - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
• Coronation Glacier
  Coronation Glacier
  Coronation Glacier is a glacier on southeastern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. The glacier is on the northeast coast of Cumberland Peninsula and is an outlet glacier of the Penny Ice Cap. The Coronation Glacier lost its connection to the Elena Glacier between 1943 and 1949.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Devon Ice Cap
  Devon Ice Cap
  The Devon Ice Cap is an ice cap on eastern Devon Island covering an area of over . The highest point on Devon Island is found at the summit of the ice cap, with an elevation of . The ice cap has a maximum thickness of ....
  
   - Devon Island, Nunavut
• Disraeli Glacier
  Disraeli Glacier
  Disraeli Glacier is a glacier on northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. It lies in Quttinirpaaq National Park.-See also:*List of glaciers...
  
   - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
• Eugenie Glacier
  Eugenie Glacier
  Eugenie Glacier is a glacier on central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. It rises to approximately above sea level.-See also:*List of glaciers...
  
   - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
• Jimi Maasi Glacier
  Jimi Maasi Glacier
  Jimi Maasi Glacier is a glacier in northeastern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Kaparoqtalik Glacier
  Kaparoqtalik Glacier
  Kaparoqtalik Glacier is a glacier located in the southern coast of the Byam Martin Mountains on Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada. It lies in Sirmilik National Park.-References:...
  
   - Bylot Island, Nunavut
• Keyhole Glacier
  Keyhole Glacier
  Keyhole Glacier is a glacier located in the central Baffin Mountains of northeastern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Kiitarayuk Glacier
  Kiitarayuk Glacier
  Kiitarayuk Glacier is a glacier located on the central coast of the Baffin Mountains on northeastern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Macculloch Glacier
  Macculloch Glacier
  Macculloch Glacier is a glacier located in the northeastern coast of the Baffin Mountains on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Melville South Icecap - Melville Island, Nunavut
• Müller Icecap - Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut
• Nuuksuq Glacier
  Nuuksuq Glacier
  Nuuksuq Glacier is a glacier located on the central coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Oliver Glacier
  Oliver Glacier
  Oliver Glacier is a glacier located on the northeast coast of the Baffin Mountains on Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It is just outside Sirmilik National Park.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Parrish Glacier
  Parrish Glacier
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   - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
• Penny Ice Cap
  Penny Ice Cap
  The Penny Ice Cap is a vast, ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fiords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the last ice age. During the mid 1990s, Canadian researchers studied the...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• Sermilik Glacier
  Sermilik Glacier
  Sermilik Glacier is a glacier located in the southern Byam Martin Mountains of Bylot Island, Nunavut, Canada. It lies in Sirmilik National Park.-References:...
  
   - Bylot Island, Nunavut
• Sven Hedin Glacier
  Sven Hedin Glacier
  Sven Hedin Glacier is a glacier north of Princess Marie Bay on central Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. The glacier has the name of Sven Hedin. The Oxford University Ellesmere Land expedition visited the glacier in the year 1935. The Glacier appeared to be advancing in 1935.-References:* Nunavut...
  
   - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
• Turnabout Glacier
  Turnabout Glacier
  Turnabout Glacier is located on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada. It is drained by the Turnabout River.The glacier, the river and Turnabout Lake were named in 1957–58 during the International Geophysical Year by the Hazen Camp party directed by Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith.-References:*Geographical...
  
   - Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
• Utinatuk Glacier
  Utinatuk Glacier
  Utinatuk Glacier is a glacier located on the central coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• West Pioneer Glacier
  West Pioneer Glacier
  West Pioneer Glacier is a glacier located on the central coast of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.-References:...
  
   - Baffin Island, Nunavut
• White Glacier
  White Glacier
  White Glacier is a broad westward flowing tributary glacier which joins the Land Glacier on the north side of Mount McCoy in Marie Byrd Land. Mapped by United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1959-65. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for General...
  
  - Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut