Mount Callaghan is a volcanic peak located east of the headwaters of the
Squamish River
The Squamish River is a short but very large river in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its drainage basin is in size. The total length of the Squamish River is approximately .
Course
The Squamish River drains a complex of basins in the ...
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[ just northeast of the ]Powder Mountain Icefield
The Powder Mountain Icefield, also called the Powder Mountain Icecap and the Cayley Icefield, is a glacial field in the Pacific Ranges of southwestern British Columbia, Canada, about west of Whistler and about north of Vancouver. On the west sid ...
and just south of the Pemberton Icefield in the Sea to Sky Country of southwestern British Columbia
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, Canada
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, about 20 km directly west of the Resort Municipality of Whistler. A crack was observed across Callaghan's summit in the spring of 1999. In 2000, a section of the summit collapsed.[ Callaghan Lake lies below the south face of the mountain.
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See also
*Callaghan Lake Provincial Park
Callaghan Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, located in the upper Callaghan Valley to the west of the resort town of Whistler, British Columbia, Whistler. The dormant volcano Mount Callaghan overlooks the lake ...
*Callaghan Valley
The Callaghan Valley is located in the Sea to Sky Country of southwestern, British Columbia, in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains 90 km north of Vancouver. It was the home of the 2010 Winter Olympics's Whistler Olympic Park, the venu ...
*Volcanism of Canada
Volcanism, Volcanic activity is a major part of the geology of Canada and is characterized by many types of volcanic landform, including lava flows, volcanic plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, submarine volcano ...
*Volcanism of Western Canada
Volcanism of Western Canada has produced lava flows, lava plateaus, lava domes, cinder cones, stratovolcanoes, shield volcanoes, greenstone belts, submarine volcanoes, calderas, diatremes and maars, along with examples of more less common v ...
References
Volcanoes of British Columbia
Garibaldi Volcanic Belt
Sea-to-Sky Corridor
Subduction volcanoes
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
New Westminster Land District
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