Palliser Range

The Palliser Range is a mountain range of the Canadian Rockies that lies in the extreme southeast corner of Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada.

Palliser Range
Mount Aylmer, August 1994
Highest point
Peak	Mount Aylmer
Elevation	3,162 m (10,374 ft)[1]
Listing	Mountains of Alberta
Geography
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Location	Banff National Park Alberta, Canada
Range coordinates	51°23′N 115°34′W[2]
Parent range	Canadian Rockies
Borders on	Bare Range
Topo map	NTS 82O5 Castle Mountain[2]

The Palliser Range is part of the East Banff Ranges of the Central Front Canadian Rockies.^[3]

Lake Minnewanka marks the southern boundary of the range while the Bare Range marks the northern boundary. Its eastern reaches are marked by the Black Rock Mountain 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, a stratigraphical unit prominently featured in the mountains of this range.

List of mountains

This range includes the following mountains and peaks:

Mountain / Peak	Elevation		Prominence		Coordinates
	m	ft	m	ft
Mount Aylmer	3,162	10,374	1,142	3,747	51°19′26″N 115°26′0″W
Puma Peak	3,120	10,240	819	2,687	51°27′36″N 115°37′0″W
Revenant Mountain	3,065	10,056	725	2,379	51°22′24″N 115°28′46″W
Apparition Mountain	3,002	9,849	182	597	51°22′2″N 115°27′32″W
Mount Astley	2,869	9,413			51°18′0″N 115°29′9″W

See also

• Ranges of the Canadian Rockies