Mount Warspite

Mount Warspite is a 2,850-metre peak in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, visible from the Smith-Dorrien Road and Highway 40 in the Kananaskis Lakes area. Its name is part of a group of Kananaskis peaks associated with the 1916 Battle of Jutland, and in 1917 it was named for HMS Warspite, a British battleship that served in both world wars; the name was officially adopted in 1922. The mountain consists of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, helping form the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies.

Alberta · Canada