Crowfoot Glacier
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 The Crowfoot Glacier |
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| location | Canadian Rockies | |
| Mountains | Alberta (Canada) | |
| surface | 1.5 km² | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 38 '3 " N , 116 ° 26' 4" W | |
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| drainage | Bow River | |
 Glacier View from the Icefields Parkway from |
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The Crowfoot Glacier ( English for " crow's foot glacier ") is a glacier that is located in Banff National Park in Alberta , the westernmost of the Prairie Provinces of Canada .
It is about 20 miles from Lake Louise and can be seen from the Icefields Parkway . The glacier provides water for the Bow River . The glacier has been in decline since the end of the Little Ice Age . In the 1980s it covered an area of about 1.5 km² and was part of a smaller ice field with an area of 5 km².
