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Coral Mountain (Alberta)

  • 3146 m (10,322ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
52.3569N -116.717W
Located at the northern headwaters of the Bighorn River and the headwaters of Coral Creek; 3.2 km east of Job Pass

Province: Alberta
Headwater: Saskatchewan
Ascent Date: 1928
Ascent Party: Topographical Survey
Year Named: 1892
Named by: Arthur Coleman
Named for: The name was chosen because of the outcropping of fossil coral on the mountain. (Glen Boles refers to a name change and Mt. McDonald?)

Please note that there is another Coral Mountain in British Columbia (See Coral Mountain (BC))