Wapta Glacier

Coordinates: 51°38′22″N 116°31′35″W / 51.63944°N 116.52639°W / 51.63944; -116.52639

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.

References

  1. ↑ http://dowclimbing.com/WaptaIcefields.html
  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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