The Palliser Range is a

mountain range A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have aris ...

of the

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that lies in the extreme southeast corner of

Banff National Park Banff National Park is Canada, Canada's first National Parks of Canada, national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rockies, Alberta's Rocky Mountains, west of Calgary, Banff encompasses of mountainous ter ...

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. The Palliser Range is part of the East Banff Ranges of the Central Front

Lake Minnewanka Lake Minnewanka () ('water of the spirits' in Nakoda) is a glacial lake in the eastern area of Banff National Park in Canada, about northeast of the Banff townsite. The lake is long and deep, making it the 2nd longest lake in the mountain par ...

marks the southern boundary of the range while the Bare Range marks the northern boundary. Its eastern reaches are marked by the

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of the Ghost River Area. The range was named by the Palliser expedition as it appears on one of the maps produced by the expedition. The range gives the name to the

Palliser Formation The Palliser Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Late Devonian (Famennian) age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. It is a thick sequence of limestone and dolomitic limestone that is present in the Canadian Rockies and foothills of western ...

, a stratigraphical unit prominently featured in the mountains of this range.

List of mountains

This range includes the following mountains and peaks:

References

Mountains of Banff National Park {{Alberta-geo-stub

List of mountains

See also

References