The Ha-Iltzuk Icefield is an icefield in the central

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of the

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. It is the largest icefield in the Coast Mountains south of the

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/ref> It is located on the west side of the Klinaklini River and the Waddington Range. The highest summit in the icefield is Mount Silverthrone, which is a mountain on the northeast edge of a circular, wide, deeply dissected

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called the Silverthrone Caldera. The southern half of the icefield is named the Silverthrone Glacier and flows west, joining the

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just above that glacier's terminus, where its outflow is short but very large, and joins the Klinaklini River within a few kilometres. The Klinaklini Glacier constitutes the northern half of the icefield, and off its northwest edge a glacial tongue produces the head of the Machmell River. The name Ha-Iltzuk Icefield does not appear in government gazettes. The term is almost certainly a phonetic spelling of hailtzaq - the

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