Fiddle Peak was named by
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. He went on to have a lengthy career as a government employed ...
in 1858. It is located in the
Fiddle Range
The Fiddle Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies located south of Highway 16 on the east border of Jasper National Park, Canada.
The range was so named on account of noises produced by blowing wind.
This range includes the following ...
of
Jasper National Park
Jasper National Park, in Alberta, Canada, is the largest national park within Alberta's Rocky Mountains, spanning . It was established as Jasper Forest Park in 1907, renamed as a national park in 1930, and declared a UNESCO world heritage site ...
,
Alberta
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,
Canada
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.
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Two-thousanders of Alberta
Mountains of Jasper National Park
Front Ranges
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