Mount Charles Stewart (original) (raw)

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Mountain in Banff NP, Alberta, Canada

Mount Charles Stewart
Mount Charles Stewart (left) seen with Mount Lady McDonald (right)
Highest point
Elevation 2,809 m (9,216 ft)[1]
Prominence 363 m (1,191 ft)[2]
Listing Mountains of Alberta
Coordinates 51°09′18″N 115°19′59.9″W / 51.15500°N 115.333306°W / 51.15500; -115.333306[2]
Geography
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Location Alberta, Canada
Parent range Fairholme RangeCanadian Rockies
Topo map NTS 82O3 Canmore
Climbing
First ascent 1947[1][2]
Easiest route rock climb

Mount Charles Stewart is a mountain located in the Bow River valley of Banff National Park in Canada.

The mountain was named in 1928 after Charles Stewart, who served as Premier of Alberta from 1917 to 1921.[1]

Mount Charles Stewart is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.[3] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[4]

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Charles Stewart is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[5] Temperatures can drop below −20 C with wind chill factors below −30 C. Precipitation runoff from Mount Charles Stewart drains into the Bow River which is a tributary of the Saskatchewan River.

  1. ^ a b c "Mount Charles Stewart". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-20.
  2. ^ a b c "Mount Charles Stewart". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2008-12-31.
  3. ^ Belyea, Helen R. (1960). The Story of the Mountains in Banff National Park (PDF). parkscanadahistory.com (Report). Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  4. ^ Gadd, Ben (2008). Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias.
  5. ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606.