Terminal Mountain is a mountain

summit A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topography, topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous. The term (mountain top) is generally used ...

located in

Jasper National Park Jasper National Park is a national park in Alberta, Canada. It is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains spanning . It was established as a national park in 1930 and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. Its locatio ...

, in the

Trident Range The South Jasper Ranges are mountain ranges of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. It is a part of the Central Main Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, located on the Continental Divide, in Jasper National Park (Alberta) and ...

of the

Canadian Rockies The Canadian Rockies (french: Rocheuses canadiennes) or Canadian Rocky Mountains, comprising both the Alberta Rockies and the British Columbian Rockies, is the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains. It is the easternmost part ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

, Canada. The town of

Jasper Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases,Kostov, R. I. 2010. Review on the mineralogical systematics of jasper and related rocks. – Archaeometry Workshop, 7, 3, 209-213PDF/ref> ...

is situated 12 kilometers to the north-northeast. Terminal Mountain forms the west buttress of Marmot Pass, and the east buttress is formed by Marmot Mountain, home of the

Marmot Basin Marmot Basin is an alpine ski area located on Marmot Mountain in Alberta's Jasper National Park. It has 91 named runs on four mountain faces with 3,000 vertical feet of drop. The area has a lift capacity of close to 12,000 skiers per hour on sev ...

alpine ski area. Peveril Peak rises to the south across Circus Valley, and the north side towers above the valley of Whistlers Creek. The nearest higher neighbor is

Manx Peak Manx Peak is a mountain summit located in Jasper National Park, in the Trident Range of the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada. The town of Jasper is situated to the north-northeast. Circus Valley lies at the south side of the mountain, and the ...

, to the west.

History

The descriptive name ''Terminal'' was applied in 1916 by Morrison P. Bridgland (1878-1948), a

Dominion Land Survey The Dominion Land Survey (DLS; french: links=no, arpentage des terres fédérales, ATF) is the method used to divide most of Western Canada into one-square-mile (2.6 km2) sections for agricultural and other purposes. It is based on the layout ...

or who named many peaks in Jasper Park and the Canadian Rockies. It appeared as ''Mt. Terminal'', 9300 feet, in a 1921 book, "''A Climber's Guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada.''"A Climber's Guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada, Howard Palmer and J. Monroe Thorington authors, American Alpine Club, First Edition, 1921, page 152 The mountain's present toponym was officially adopted in 1951 by the

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Climate

Based on the

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

, Terminal Mountain is located in a

subarctic climate The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of an ocean, ge ...

zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Winter temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C. Precipitation

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from Terminal Mountain drains to the

Athabasca River The Athabasca River (French: ''Rivière Athabasca'') is a river in Alberta, Canada, which originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park and flows more than before emptying into Lake Athabasca. Much of the land along its banks is pro ...

References

External links

* Weather forecast
Terminal Mountain
* Parks Canada web site
Jasper National Park
{{Canadian Rockies, state=collapsed Two-thousanders of Alberta Mountains of Jasper National Park Canadian Rockies Alberta's Rockies

History

Climate

See also

References

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