Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Kluane National Park and Reserve, Canada


Canada-6, originally uploaded by Abhishek's Received Postcards.

Kluane National Park and Reserve are two units of Canada's national park system, located in the extreme southwestern corner of Yukon Territory. Kluane National Park Reserve was established in 1972, covering 22,016 square kilometres.
The park includes the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan (5,959 m) of the Saint Elias Mountains. In fact, mountains and glaciers dominate the park's landscape, covering 82% of its area. It contains close to 105 species of birds, including such birds as the Rock Ptarmigan and the mighty Golden and Bald Eagle.

2 comments:

Trupti July 9, 2009 at 5:21 PM  

Oh Canada! Posted that card on our birthday Abhi :)

Evelyn Yvonne Theriault July 10, 2009 at 12:30 AM  

You have a lot of Canadian poscard friends, Abishek!
Evelyn in Montreal

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