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Mount Albert Edward
- Prominence
- 1,207 m3,961 ft
- Isolation
- 23 km
- Tonight
- -5°CLight snow · Wind 6 km/h SE
Mount Albert Edward is a 2,093 m (6,867 ft) mountain in the Vancouver Island Ranges, British Columbia, Canada.
All facts
- Elevation
- 2,093 m · 6,867 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Golden Hinde (2,195 m)
- Range
- Vancouver Island Ranges
- Region
- British Columbia, Canada
- Coordinates
- 49.6774° N, 125.4318° W
Mount Albert Edward 3D map
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Mount Albert Edward terrain and contours
100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
Mount Albert Edward elevation profile
West → east through the summit
Mount Albert Edward weather
Tonight · Light snow · -5°C (23°F) · 2.8 mm · Wind 6 km/h SE
Mount Albert Edward forecast for the summit, about 2,093 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 549 m.
- Tonight-5°2.8 mm6 km/h SEBase 4°
- Sat-6°-5°29.6 mm13 km/h SEBase 3 / 4°
- Sun-6°-4°16.4 mm7 km/h EBase 3 / 5°
- Mon-5°0°0.4 mm6 km/h SWBase 4 / 9°
- Tue-9°-1°4.6 mm5 km/h SWBase 1 / 8°
- Wed-10°-5°0.6 mm3 km/h EBase 0 / 4°
- Thu-11°-5°0.1 mm2 km/h NEBase -2 / 4°
- Fri-12°-5°0.5 mm3 km/h NEBase -3 / 4°
- Sat-5°-5°17.1 mm11 km/h SBase 4 / 4°
- Sun-5°-4°29.7 mm14 km/h SBase 5 / 6°
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 24, 01:17 UTC.
Camping & parking near Mount Albert Edward
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Mount Albert Edward, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest campsite
Circlet Lake Campground
Nearest trailhead
Karst Creek Trailhead
Nearest parking
7.2 km WSW
All mapped places 6
| Place | Distance |
|---|---|
| Circlet Lake CampgroundCampsite | 4.4 km ENE |
| Karst Creek TrailheadTrailhead | 7.2 km WSW |
| Parking | 7.2 km WSW |
| Parking | 7.2 km WSW |
| Kwai Lake CampsiteCampsite | 7.2 km ENE |
| Parking | 7.7 km W |
Slope
Share of the 8.8 × 8.8 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.
Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.
- Steeper than 30°
- 48.9% of the 77 km² view
- Relief in view
- 1,540 m low point 549 m
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Nearby summits
Named peaks within 4.4 km, measured from the Mount Albert Edward summit.
Summit list 8
- 1Mount Regan1,976 m 0.8 km N
- 2Mount Frink1,948 m 2.3 km SE
- 3Mount Mitchell1,842 m 2.6 km WNW
- 4Augerpoint Mountain1,839 m 3.0 km WSW
- 5Jutland Mountain1,821 m 3.1 km NNE
- 6Mount George V1,884 m 3.2 km S
- 7Castlecrag Mountain1,765 m 3.6 km ESE
- 8Syd Watts Peak1,856 m 4.3 km SW
Where Mount Albert Edward sits
- Range
- American Cordillera467North American Cordillera271Pacific Coast Ranges119Insular Mountains10Vancouver Island Ranges10
- Region
- British Columbia115Canada331North America1,313
Nearby places
Mount CelestePeak · 2,045 m↑11 km S
Mount WashingtonPeak · 1,585 m↑13 km NE
Comox Glacier1,960 m↑15 km SSE
Pear Lake411 m↑30 km SE
Elkhorn MountainPeak · 2,194 m↑31 km WNW
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More in the Vancouver Island Ranges 6
Mount Albert Edward downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
within 10 m This 3D map reads 2,089 m at the summit; the official height is 2,093 m.
A 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a few metres either way is normal.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 2,093 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 2,089 m | -4 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 2,083 m | -10 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026 (scene 2026-08-20)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Accuracy comparison, Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)