Defender Mountain

Defender Mountain
Defender Mountain Location in Alberta and British Columbia
Elevation	2,821 m (9,255 ft) ^[1]
Prominence	200 m (656 ft)
Location
Location	Alberta British Columbia
Topo map	NTS 82J/11

Defender Mountain is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia on the Continental Divide. It was named in 1921 by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey after the HMS Defender.^[1]^[2]

References

Canadian Rockies

Ranges

Mountains

Passes

Glaciers

Parks and protected areas

World Heritage Sites	Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

National	Parks: Banff Jasper Kootenay Yoho Waterton Lakes Historic Sites: Jasper House Jasper Park Information Centre Yellowhead Pass Athabasca Pass Howse Pass Kootenae House Kicking Horse Pass Skoki Ski Lodge Twin Falls Tea House Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin Cave and Basin Banff Park Museum Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station First Oil Well in Western Canada

Provincial (AB)	Parks: Bow Valley Bragg Creek Elbow-Sheep Ghost River Kananaskis Peter Lougheed Sheep River Siffleur Spray Valley White Goat Willmore Historic Sites: Frank Slide

Provincial (BC)	Akamina-Kishinena Close To The Edge Dune Za Keyih (Frog-Gataga) Elk Lakes Graham-Laurier Hamber Height of the Rockies Hole-in-the-Wall Kakwa Kikomun Creek Kwadacha Mount Assiniboine Mount Fernie Mount Robson Muncho Lake Northern Rocky Mountains Pine Le Moray Stone Mountain Muskwa-Kechika

Ski resorts

Communities

See also: Geography of Canada portal