Columbia Icefield

icefield located in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies in Alberta and British Columbia
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Columbia Icefield
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Columbia Icefield

Summary

Columbia Icefield is an ice field[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of ice_field entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (186 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Columbia Icefield is located in Alberta[3].
  • Columbia Icefield is located in British Columbia[4].
  • Columbia Icefield is in the country of Canada[5].
  • Columbia Icefield's image is recorded as Columbia icefield view.jpg[6].
  • Columbia Icefield's instance of is recorded as ice field[7].
  • Columbia Icefield's instance of is recorded as glacier[8].
  • Columbia Icefield's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 315144078[9].
  • Columbia Icefield's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 236537260[10].
  • Columbia Icefield's GND ID is recorded as 4359818-3[11].
  • Columbia Icefield's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85028737[12].
  • Columbia Icefield's Commons category is recorded as Columbia Icefield[13].
  • Columbia Icefield's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 52.157222222222, 'lon': -117.31388888889}[14].
  • Columbia Icefield's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03c5rn[15].
  • Columbia Icefield's CGNDB unique ID is recorded as IAQQB[16].
  • Columbia Icefield's CGNDB unique ID is recorded as JATIM[17].
  • Columbia Icefield's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Columbia Icefield[18].
  • Columbia Icefield's Commons gallery is recorded as Columbia Icefield[19].
  • Columbia Icefield's page banner is recorded as WV banner Athabasca Glacier Coaches.jpg[20].
  • Columbia Icefield's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0018891[21].
  • Columbia Icefield's described by source is recorded as Great journeys: travel the world's most spectacular routes[22].
  • Columbia Icefield's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as place/Columbia-Icefield[23].
  • Columbia Icefield's GeoNames ID is recorded as 6942028[24].
  • Columbia Icefield's GeoNames ID is recorded as 5926205[25].
  • Columbia Icefield's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Columbia Icefield'}[26].
  • Columbia Icefield's BC Geographical Names ID is recorded as 10895[27].

Body

Geography

Columbia Icefield is in the country of Canada[5]. Located in include Alberta[3], a province of Canada[28], in Canada[29], founded in 1905[30] and British Columbia[4], a province of Canada[31], in Canada[32], founded in 1871[33].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include ice field[7] and glacier[8].

Why It Matters

Columbia Icefield ranks in the top 9% of ice_field entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (186 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . Canadian Geographical Names Database. wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . Canadian Geographical Names Database. wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . Canadian Geographical Names Database. wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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