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Mount Vaux, the Glossary

Mount Vaux is a mountain summit located in the Kicking Horse River valley of Yoho National Park, in the Ottertail Range of the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia, Canada.^[1]

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Mountains of Yoho National Park

British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Cambrian

The Cambrian is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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The Canadian Rockies (Rocheuses canadiennes) or Canadian Rocky Mountains, comprising both the Alberta Rockies and the British Columbian Rockies, is the Canadian segment of the North American Rocky Mountains.

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Charles Ernest Fay

Professor Charles Ernest Fay (1846–1931) was an American alpinist and educator.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River (Upper Chinook: or; Sahaptin: Nch’i-Wàna or Nchi wana; Sinixt dialect swah'netk'qhu) is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Emerald Lake (British Columbia)

Emerald Lake is a freshwater lake located in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada. Mount Vaux and Emerald Lake (British Columbia) are Canadian Rockies and Kootenay Land District.

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First ascent

In mountaineering and climbing, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books), is the first successful documented climb to the top of a mountain or the top of a particular climbing route.

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Geographical Names Board of Canada

The Geographical Names Board of Canada (GNBC) is a national committee with a secretariat in Natural Resources Canada, part of the Government of Canada, which authorizes the names used and name changes on official federal government maps of Canada.

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Geography of British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost province of Canada, bordered by the Pacific Ocean.

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Henry Scattergood

Joseph Henry Scattergood (January 26, 1877 – June 15, 1953) was an American cricketer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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James Hector

Sir James Hector (16 March 1834 – 6 November 1907) was a Scottish-New Zealand geologist, naturalist, and surgeon who accompanied the Palliser Expedition as a surgeon and geologist.

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James Outram (mountaineer)

James Outram (13 October 1864 – 12 March 1925) was a British clergyman, who made many first ascents in the Canadian Rockies in the early 1900s.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kicking Horse River

The Kicking Horse River is in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Mount Vaux and Kicking Horse River are Kootenay Land District.

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Kootenay Land District

The Kootenay Land District is a cadastral survey subdivision of the province of British Columbia, Canada, created with rest of those on Mainland British Columbia via the Lands Act of the Colony of British Columbia in 1860.

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Laramide orogeny

The Laramide orogeny was a time period of mountain building in western North America, which started in the Late Cretaceous, 80 to 70 million years ago, and ended 55 to 35 million years ago.

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List of mountains of British Columbia

List of mountains of British Columbia is a list of mountains in the Canadian province of British Columbia.

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Mount Goodsir

Mount Goodsir (or the Goodsir Towers) is the highest mountain in the Ottertail Range, a subrange of the Park Ranges in British Columbia. Mount Vaux and mount Goodsir are Canadian Rockies, mountains of Yoho National Park and Three-thousanders of British Columbia.

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National Topographic System

The National Topographic System or NTS is the system used by Natural Resources Canada for providing general purpose topographic maps of the country.

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Palliser expedition

The Palliser expedition, officially the British North American Exploring Expedition, explored and surveyed the open prairies and rugged wilderness of western Canada from 1857 to 1860.

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Precambrian

The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pC, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.

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Sedimentary rock

Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.

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Subarctic climate

The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers.

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Surface runoff

Surface runoff (also known as overland flow or terrestrial runoff) is the unconfined flow of water over the ground surface, in contrast to channel runoff (or stream flow).

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Trans-Canada Highway

The Trans-Canada Highway (French: Route Transcanadienne; abbreviated as the TCH or T-Can) is a transcontinental federal–provincial highway system that travels through all ten provinces of Canada, from the Pacific Ocean on the west coast to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast.

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William Sandys Wright Vaux

William Sandys Wright Vaux FRS (28 February 1818 – 21 June 1885), was a celebrated English antiquary and numismatist of the 19th century.

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Yoho National Park

Yoho National Park is a national park of Canada. Mount Vaux and Yoho National Park are Kootenay Land District.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Vaux