Crowfoot Glacier

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Crowfoot Glacier is located in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada, Script error: No such module "convert". northwest of Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway. The glacier is situated on the northeastern flank of Crowfoot Mountain.

Geography

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Crowfoot Glacier

The glacier was measured to be Script error: No such module "convert".. 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).

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