Wapta Glacier

Coordinates: 51°38′22″N 116°31′35″W / 51.63944°N 116.52639°W / 51.63944; -116.52639

The Wapta ice fields are a series of glaciers popular with climbers^[1] on the border of Alberta and British Columbia^[2] in Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies.^[3] The Burgess shale animal Waptia takes its name from these features.^[4] Their meltwater feeds the nearby Wapta falls.

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^ http://dowclimbing.com/WaptaIcefields.html^{[dead link]}
^ http://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/v9/sima_unique_v9?english?IAOSH?C
^ "BCGNIS Query Results".
^ Gould, S.J. (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W.W. Norton & Company.^{[page needed]}

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[1] ttp://dowclimbing.com/WaptaIcefields.html^{[dead link]}

[2] ttp://geonames2.nrcan.gc.ca/cgi-bin/v9/sima_unique_v9?english?IAOSH?C

[3] "BCGNIS Query Results".

[4] Gould, S.J. (1989). Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History. W.W. Norton & Company.^{[page needed]}

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