Castle Mountain

Castle Mountain (2003)

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The Castle Mountain (Eng. " Castle Hill " ) is a mountain in the Canadian province of Alberta. It is 2766 meters ( 9,076 feet) high.

Its profile resembles a castle. Named has him James Hector in 1858. The first ascent was Arthur P. Coleman, in 1884. A day before the visit of U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Ottawa, the Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King decided in 1946 the mountain in "Mount Eisenhower " rename. Only in 1979 was the mountain back to its original name.

During World War I, was a detention center, the Castle Mountain internment camp.

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