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One Montana peak drains into three oceans
Rain on Triple Divide Peak can end up in the Pacific, the Atlantic or the Arctic The peak stands in Glacier National Park at 2,444 metres. Water on its slopes runs to the Columbia, the Missouri and the Saskatchewan, and from there to three different oceans. Hudson Bay is treated as part of the Arctic Ocean for the count, which makes the site unusually rare. It sits in Mondo's world geography collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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One Montana peak drains into three oceans: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Rain on Triple Divide Peak can end up in the Pacific, the Atlantic or the Arctic. The figure is taken from National Park Service, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a world geography fact?
- Yes. It sits on the World Geography shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
- What else can I read about it?
- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.