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Lectern Peak is a 2,772-metre mountain in Alberta's Jasper National Park, in the Trident Range of the Canadian Rockies, rising steeply above nearby terrain south of Jasper and visible from the Icefields Parkway. Its runoff feeds Portal Creek and the Astoria River, tributaries of the Athabasca. Geoffrey E. Howard, with Arnold L. Mumm and Moritz Inderbinen, made a partial ascent in 1913, and Howard named it for its resemblance to a church lectern; the name was officially adopted in 1935. The peak has a subarctic climate with severe winter cold and consists of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.
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