Vulture Glacier (Alberta, Canada)
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Vulture Glacier is located in
Banff National Park Banff National Park is Canada, Canada's first National Parks of Canada, national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rockies, Alberta's Rocky Mountains, west of Calgary, Banff encompasses of mountainous ter ...
, Alberta, Canada, northwest of Lake Louise, Alberta, Lake Louise, and can be viewed from the Icefields Parkway. Vulture Glacier is an outflow glacier from the Wapta Icefield, which rests along the Continental Divide of the Americas, Continental Divide. The glacier had an area of in the 1980s, however, all of the glaciers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Rockies have been retreating steadily since the middle of the 19th century.


See also

*List of glaciers in Canada


References

* * Banff National Park Glaciers of Alberta {{AlbertaRockies-geo-stub