Vulture glacier

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Vulture glacier
location Alberta (Canada)
Mountains Canadian Rockies
Type Outlet glacier
surface 4.9 km² (in the 1980s)
Coordinates 51 ° 36 '18 "  N , 116 ° 27' 56"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '18 "  N , 116 ° 27' 56"  W.
Vulture Glacier, Alberta
Vulture glacier
drainage Hector LakeBow River

The Vulture Glacier is in Banff National Park in the Canadian province of Alberta situated glacier .

It's located northwest of Lake Louise and can be seen from the Icefields Parkway . It is an outlet glacier from the Wapta ice field . In the 1980s the glacier covered an area of ​​4.9 km². But like the other glaciers in the Canadian Rockies , the glacier is in retreat .