Mount Snowdome, British Columbia, Canada
Photo by Craig Adkins, used by permission. (fair use policy)
Mount Snowdome is a mountain on the edge. It's on the edge of the huge, rolling Columbia Icefield, supposedly the largest below the Arctic Circle (although good numbers on the world's icefields are scarce). And it's on the border between the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, though most of it is in B.C.
Most notably, it is unique in North America in sitting on the edge of three great watersheds. Water flowing off this side makes its way to the Arctic Ocean; on the back side, water draining to the right eventually enters the Pacific Ocean while runoff to the left ends up in the Atlantic Ocean via Hudson Bay. Hydrologists think of it as the apex of the continent. I think it is the only place in the world where a snowflake can melt directly into three different oceans.
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