The Columbia Icefield, Alberta, CANADA

Description: The Columbia Icefield, Alberta, CANADA - Canadian Rockies: 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 meters (328 to 1,197 ft.) in depth and receives up to seven meters (275 in) of snowfall per year. The icefield feeds eight major glaciers. Mount Andromeda (pictured in the postcard) is located within the Columbia Icefield on the boundary of Banff and Jasper national parks. The mountain can be seen from the Icefields Parkway (#93) near Sunwapta Pass and is directly southwest of Mount Athabasca. Mt. Andromeda was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson, former president of the Alpine Club of Canada, after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus. The card's reverse informs "Columbia Icefield's 110 square miles of ice and snow form the largest icefield in the Canadian Rockies. Here is the breakoff of the Allhabasca Glacier adjoining the Banff-Jasper Highway. Snowmobile trips three miles up this "river of ice" feature the summer season at the Icefield." This Photochromatic postcard is in good condition. Harry Rowed, O'Neill & Assoc. Alberta. No. S-820.

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