La Coulotte Peak is located SE of Fernie and straddles the

Continental Divide A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea, and the basin on the other side either feeds into a different ocean or sea, or else is endorheic, not ...

marking the

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border. It was named after La Coulotte near

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where Canadian troops fought the German army at the

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Two-thousanders of Alberta Two-thousanders of British Columbia Canadian Rockies Kootenay Land District {{AlbertaRockies-geo-stub

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