Columbia Snowfield
| Feature Type: | Icefield - Irregularly shaped mass of permanent snow and ice, generally forming the accumulation area of two or more glaciers. |
| Status: | Not official |
| Other Names: | Columbia IcefieldOfficial |
| Relative Location: | Straddling BC-Alberta boundary S of Snow Dome and Mount Columbia, N of Bush Arm Kinbasket Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°09'29"N, 117°19'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83C/3 |
| Related Maps: |
83C/3 83C/4 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Columbia Snowfield adopted 6 Febuary 1912; form of name changed to Columbia Icefield 5 March 1935 on Jasper Park sheet, as labelled on BC-Alberta Boundary sheets 21, 22 & 23, published in 1923 from surveys in 1919. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |