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Mount Birdwood is a 3,097-metre peak in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, on the eastern edge of Banff National Park above the upper Spray Lakes River Valley. Named in 1919 for Lieutenant General Sir William R. Birdwood, commander of the Australian Imperial Force in France during the First World War, its name was officially adopted in 1928. The first recorded ascent came in 1922, when C. F. Hogeboom, F. N. Waterman, and Rudolph Aemmer reached the summit. The mountain is formed from ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, and it drains into the Spray River within the Bow River watershed.
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