Nikanassin Range

Nikanassin Range
Cardinal River flowing east through the Nikanassin Range
Highest point
Peak	Climax Mountain
Elevation	2,823 m (9,262 ft)
Coordinates	52°54′N 117°25′W / 52.900°N 117.417°W / 52.900; -117.417
Dimensions
Length	80 km (50 mi) W-E
Width	66 km (41 mi) N-S
Area	2,760 km2 (1,070 sq mi)
Geography
Country	Canada
Province	Alberta
Range coordinates	52°57′N 117°09′W / 52.95°N 117.15°W / 52.95; -117.15Coordinates: 52°57′N 117°09′W / 52.95°N 117.15°W / 52.95; -117.15
Parent range	Canadian Rockies

The Nikanassin Range s a group of mountain ranges in the Canadian Rockies on the eastern edge of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is developed south-east of the Fiddle Range, and one of the front ranges. Nikanassin means "first range" in Cree.

The range has an extent of 2,760 square kilometres (1,070 sq mi),^[1] with a length of 80 kilometres (50 mi) from north-west to south-east, and a width of 66 kilometres (41 mi). Its highest point is Climax Mountain, with a height of 2,823 metres (9,262 ft).

Numerous seams of coal are found in this range, with past and present mines at Cadomin, Mountain Park and Luscar.^[2]

The range gives the name to the Nikanassin Formation, a stratigraphical unit of late Jurassic age that has its stratotype in this region.

Peaks

Nikanassin Range over the foothills

References

Canadian Rockies
Ranges	Ball Bare Beaverfoot Blue Bow Crowsnest Elk Fairholme Flathead Foothills High Rock Kananaskis Livingstone Lizard Maligne Massive Misty Morrissey Palliser President Queen Elizabeth Rainbow Ram Sawback Sentinel Slate South Jasper Sundance Terminal Tower of London Vermilion Victoria Cross Waputik Winston Churchill Continental Ranges Hart Ranges Muskwa Ranges
Mountains	Alberta Andromeda Assiniboine Athabasca Brazeau Bryce Cascade Castle Castleguard Clemenceau Columbia Cory Edith Cavell Forbes Hector Hosmer Hungabee Joffre Kitchener Lyell Heart Pilot Pyramid Resplendent Robson Rundle Sarbach Saskatchewan Smythe Snow Dome Stanley Peak Sulphur Temple Three Sisters Trinity Twin Ulysses Whymper
Passes	Abbot Athabasca Bush Carcajou Crowsnest Elbow Elk Fortress Fraser Highwood Howse Jarvis Kananaskis Kicking Horse Monkman Muncho North Kananaskis Palliser Pine Simpson Sinclair Summit Sunwapta Tonquin Vermilion Wapiti White Man Yellowhead
Glaciers	Athabasca Bow Columbia Icefield Crowfoot Hector Peyto Saskatchewan Vulture Wapta Waputik Icefield
Rivers	see List of rivers of the Canadian Rockies and Category:Rivers of the Canadian Rockies
Peoples	Mountain Stoney Mountain Metis
Parks and protected areas	World Heritage Sites Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park National Parks Banff Jasper Kootenay Yoho Waterton Lakes Historic Sites Jasper House Jasper Park Information Centre Yellowhead Pass Athabasca Pass Howse Pass Kootenae House Kicking Horse Pass Skoki Ski Lodge Twin Falls Tea House Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin Cave and Basin Banff Park Museum Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station First Oil Well in Western Canada Provincial (AB) Parks Bow Valley Bragg Creek Elbow-Sheep Ghost River Kananaskis Peter Lougheed Sheep River Siffleur Spray Valley White Goat Willmore Historic Sites Frank Slide Provincial (BC) Akamina-Kishinena Close To The Edge Dune Za Keyih (Frog-Gataga) Elk Lakes Graham-Laurier Hamber Height of the Rockies Hole-in-the-Wall Kakwa Kikomun Creek Kwadacha Mount Assiniboine Mount Fernie Mount Robson Muncho Lake Northern Rocky Mountains Pine Le Moray Stone Mountain Muskwa-Kechika
Ski resorts	Castle Mountain Fernie Fortress Mountain Lake Louise Little Mac Marmot Basin Mount Norquay Nakiska Powder King Sunshine Village
Communities	Banff Canmore Crowsnest Pass Elkford Fernie Field Jasper Lake Louise Sparwood Tumbler Ridge Valemount Waterton Park
Ecoregions	Alberta Mountain forests Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests North Central Rockies forest
See also Geography of Canada portal