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Snow Dome Mountatain in Canada, viewed from the south-southwest:

A triple divide between three drainage basins (Great Valleys), is also called a 'triple point' and one occurs in Canada, on the south slope of the Mountain called the Snow Dome at an unimportant-looking hump on the border between Alberta and British Columbia. At 3,456 metres (11,300 ft), the point is higher than the U.S. Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park. The exact location of the triple point in Canada is somewhat indeterminate because the Columbia Icefield and the snow on top of it shift from year to year, buried beneath the ice-flow between the two mountains (there's a glacier to the left you can't see). This side depicted flows to the pacific and the face is part of the Grand Divide which runs down the spine of North America through Central America. On the other side it flows to the Atlantic (Hudson Bay) and to the North it flows to the Arctic Ocean. This Mountain is within the Columbia Ice Fields in Alberta, Canada. With a permanent ice cap, the snow that falls on it (about 10 metres (33 ft) per year) doesn't really flow downhill as water, it creeps downhill in the form of glacial ice.

• To the south nearly on the border with Canada is the Montana triple continental divide (USGS GNIS name [[:w:Triple Divide Peak (Montana}|Triple Divide Peak]] or 'Triple Divide Mountain') is actually exposed an is visible as a rocky craig. Two of the drainage basins are the same for both triple point.

• A similar triple division takes place at 'Triple Divide Peak' 10.46 miles (16.83 km) south of the New York-Pennsylvania state lines (dec Coords: 41.848076, -77.832780) in a less severe pastoral setting amidst farm near a rural road junction in Potter County, Pennsylvania. The summit is the northernmost of three, a few miles west of the village of Brookland, PA, at the junction of Kidney Road, Genessee Township, Pennsylvania, with the Eastern Continental Divide running nearly parallel to the ridge along Rooks road with the division of waters flowing via

1. Allegheny River - to the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio River-Mississippi River system.
2. Genessee River - via Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River basin to the North Atlantic Ocean.
3. Susquehanna River - into the head of the Chesapeake Bay to the mid-Atlantic Ocean.

Continental Divide in the United States