Crowfoot Glacier

Crowfoot Glacier

Crowfoot Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, 32 km (20 mi) northwest of Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway. The glacier is situated on the northeastern flank of Crowfoot Mountain.

Crowfoot Glacier is east of the continental divide, and runoff from the glacier supplies water to the Bow River. The glacier has retreated since the end of the Little Ice Age and now has lost one entire lobe; it therefore no longer resembles the glacier which early explorers named. The glacier was measured to be 1.5 km² (0.58 miles²). The Crowfoot glacier was once connected to the Wapta Icefield, and in the 1980s and was considered to be part of a smaller icefield of 5 km² (1.9 mi²).

Crowfoot Glacier Panorama in August 2012, showing the Crowfoot Glacier (left) and Crowfoot Mountain (center)

See also

• List of glaciers in Canada

References

• National Geographic.com. "Icefields Parkway Drive". Retrieved 2006-07-03. 
• Ommanney, C. Simon L. "Glaciers of the Canadian Rockies" (pdf). Satellite Image Atlas of Glaciers of the World. U.S. Geological Survey. Retrieved 2006-07-04. 

Canadian Rockies
Ranges	Ball Bare Beaverfoot Blue Bow Crowsnest Elk Fairholme Flathead Foothills High Rock Kananaskis Livingstone Lizard Maligne Massive Misty Morrissey Palliser President Queen Elizabeth Rainbow Ram Sawback Sentinel Slate South Jasper Sundance Terminal Tower of London Vermilion Victoria Cross Waputik Winston Churchill Continental Ranges Hart Ranges Muskwa Ranges
Mountains	Alberta Andromeda Assiniboine Athabasca Brazeau Bryce Cascade Castle Castleguard Clemenceau Columbia Cory Edith Cavell Forbes Hector Hosmer Hungabee Joffre Kitchener Lyell Heart Pilot Pyramid Resplendent Robson Rundle Sarbach Saskatchewan Smythe Snow Dome Stanley Peak Sulphur Temple Three Sisters Trinity Twin Ulysses Whymper
Passes	Abbot Athabasca Bush Carcajou Crowsnest Elbow Elk Fortress Fraser Highwood Howse Jarvis Kananaskis Kicking Horse Monkman Muncho North Kananaskis Palliser Pine Simpson Sinclair Summit Sunwapta Tonquin Vermilion Wapiti White Man Yellowhead
Glaciers	Athabasca Bow Columbia Icefield Crowfoot Hector Peyto Saskatchewan Vulture Wapta Waputik Icefield
Rivers	see List of rivers of the Canadian Rockies and Category:Rivers of the Canadian Rockies
Peoples	Mountain Stoney Mountain Metis
Parks and protected areas	World Heritage Sites Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park National Parks Banff Jasper Kootenay Yoho Waterton Lakes Historic Sites Jasper House Jasper Park Information Centre Yellowhead Pass Athabasca Pass Howse Pass Kootenae House Kicking Horse Pass Skoki Ski Lodge Twin Falls Tea House Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin Cave and Basin Banff Park Museum Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station First Oil Well in Western Canada Provincial (AB) Parks Bow Valley Bragg Creek Elbow-Sheep Ghost River Kananaskis Peter Lougheed Sheep River Siffleur Spray Valley White Goat Willmore Historic Sites Frank Slide Provincial (BC) Akamina-Kishinena Close To The Edge Dune Za Keyih (Frog-Gataga) Elk Lakes Graham-Laurier Hamber Height of the Rockies Hole-in-the-Wall Kakwa Kikomun Creek Kwadacha Mount Assiniboine Mount Fernie Mount Robson Muncho Lake Northern Rocky Mountains Pine Le Moray Stone Mountain Muskwa-Kechika
Ski resorts	Castle Mountain Fernie Fortress Mountain Lake Louise Little Mac Marmot Basin Mount Norquay Nakiska Powder King Sunshine Village
Communities	Banff Canmore Crowsnest Pass Elkford Fernie Field Jasper Lake Louise Sparwood Tumbler Ridge Valemount Waterton Park
Ecoregions	Alberta Mountain forests Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests North Central Rockies forest
See also Geography of Canada portal

Hydrography of Alberta
Rivers	Athabasca Battle Beaver Bow Brazeau Crowsnest Elbow Hay Little Bow Milk North Saskatchewan Oldman Peace Pembina Red Deer Slave Smoky South Saskatchewan
Waterfalls	Athabasca Bow Bridal Veil Crescent Crypt Elbow Panther Sunwapta
Lakes	Athabasca Beaverhill Bistcho Claire Cold La Biche Lesser Slave Pigeon Ste. Anne Sylvan Utikuma Wabamun
Reservoirs	Abraham Barrier Brazeau Chestermere Kananaskis McGregor Minnewanka Glenmore Milk River Ridge Sikome Gleniffer
Glaciers	Athabasca Bow Columbia Icefield Crowfoot Hector Peyto Saskatchewan Vulture Wapta Waputik Icefield
Other	Hay-Zama Wetlands Peace–Athabasca Delta Whooping Crane Summer Range (wetlands)

Coordinates: 51°38′2.86″N 116°26′4.12″W / 51.6341278°N 116.4344778°W / 51.6341278; -116.4344778