Wapta Glacier

The Wapta ice fields are a series of glaciers popular with climbers[1] on the border of Alberta and British Columbia[2] in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies.[3] The Burgess shale animal Waptia takes its name from these features.[4] Their meltwater feeds the nearby Wapta falls.

Wapta Glacier
Wapta ice fields
Map showing the location of Wapta Glacier
Map showing the location of Wapta Glacier
Wapta Glacier
Map showing the location of Wapta Glacier
Map showing the location of Wapta Glacier
Wapta Glacier
Map showing the location of Wapta Glacier
Map showing the location of Wapta Glacier
Wapta Glacier
Coordinates51°38′22″N 116°31′35″W
StatusReceding

References
  1. "Wapta Icefields Ski Mountaineering/Touring". dowclimbing.com. Archived from the original on 2006-05-20.
  2. http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/v9/sima_unique_v9?english?IAOSH?C
  3. "BCGNIS Query Results".
  4. Gould, S.J. (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W.W. Norton & Company.


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