Snow Dome (Canada)

Infobox Mountain
Name = Snow Dome
Photo = Snow Dome+Dome Glacier.jpg| Caption = Snow Dome and Dome Glacier seen from the Icefield Parkway
Elevation = convert|3456|m|ft|0Cite web|url=http://peakfinder.com/peakfinder.ASP?PeakName=Snow+Dome |title= Snow Dome| author=PeakFinder|accessdate=2007-09-02]
Location = flag|Alberta-flag|British Columbia CAN
Range = Sir Winston Churchill Range
Prominence = m to ft|171|abbr=yes|precision=0 [http://www.canadianmountainencyclopedia.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=366 Snow Dome - Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia] ]
Coordinates = coord|52|11|18|N|117|18|57|W|type:mountain_region:CA
Topographic
NTS 83C/03
First ascent = 1898 by J. Norman Collie, Hugh Stutfield, Herman Woolley
Easiest route = snow/glacier climb

Snow Dome is a mountain located on the Continental Divide in the Columbia Icefield, at the intersection of Banff National Park, [ [http://www.canlii.org/ca/as/2000/c32/part7694.html Legal description of Banff National Park: Canadian Legal Information Institute] ] and Jasper National Park, [ [http://www.canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=Jasper+National+Park&language=en&searchTitle=S.C.+2000%2C+c.+32&path=/ca/as/2000/c32/part7698.html Legal description of Jasper National Park: Canadian Legal Information Institute] ] in Alberta, and the British Columbia border in Canada.

The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie because its snow-capped massif resembles a dome.

The mountain, reaching a height of m to ft|3456|abbr=yes|precision=0, is possibly a hydrological apex of North America, depending on the definition of the boundary between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, and of which of those hydrographic regions Hudson Bay is considered to be a part. (The other apex is Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States). Water falling on its summit may flow into streams that drain into the Pacific Ocean (via the Columbia River), the Arctic Ocean (via the Athabasca River), and Hudson Bay (via the North Saskatchewan River). The "Dome Glacier" flows to the north-east, the "Stutfield Glacier" to the north-west, the "Columbia Glacier" to the west and Athabasca Glacier flows to the east of the mountain.

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