Photo location game · Americas
Canada landmarks quiz: guess where 17 photos were taken
The 17 places in Canada from the game, with their photos and facts. Play a round first, then read about them below.
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The round is five photos. Look at the photo, tap the map, see the distance, then go to the next one.
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Where they are
17 on the mapAll 17 places
A glacier-fed turquoise lake beneath the Valley of the Ten Peaks.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The thundering waterfalls straddling the US–Canada border.
Photo: DXR / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A slender concrete communications tower over Lake Ontario.
Photo: Scott Webb scottwebb / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A grand château-hotel above a walled old town on the St. Lawrence.
Photo: Wilfredor / CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
A remote Arctic island of fossil forests and glaciers, with no permanent residents.
Photo: Matti&Keti; Lorenz.King@geogr.uni-giessen.de / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alberta's capital, gateway to the north and home of one of the world's largest malls.
Photo: IQRemix / CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fjords and a bare orange tableland where the Earth's mantle lies exposed.
Photo: Adavyd / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A vast northern lake with Canada's largest active sand dunes on its shore.
Photo: randreu / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Alberta's largest city, home of the Stampede rodeo and the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A wilderness river park with Virginia Falls, twice the height of Niagara.
Photo: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Canada's first national park, turquoise lakes beneath the Rockies.
Photo: Florian Fuchs / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The largest protected wilderness on Earth, straddling Alaska and Yukon.
Photo: John Johnston / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Banff, Jasper, Yoho and Kootenay together, the classic Canadian Rockies.
Photo: Dietmar Rabich / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Yukon wilderness of icefields and Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak.
Photo: Jakub Fryš / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
The second highest peak in both Canada and the US, rising straight from the Pacific.
Photo: Jack French from San Francisco, USA / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Rockies park with Emerald Lake and the Burgess Shale fossil beds.
Photo: JZ85 / CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Rockies park of hot springs and the vivid Marble Canyon.
Photo: Chris Woodrich / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHow to place them
From Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek across to Gros Morne National Park is 5,000 km, and the other places here sit between the two. Moraine Lake, Banff; Calgary; Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site; Yoho National Park; and Kootenay National Park are all within 120 km of Banff National Park, near the middle of the map. Nothing else is within 2,300 km of Axel Heiberg Island. The nearest is Nahanni National Park Reserve.
Medium is the most common rating, with 7 of the 17 photos. Moraine Lake, Banff; Québec City; Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek; Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site; and Kootenay National Park are rated hard. The easy ones are Niagara Falls; CN Tower, Toronto; Axel Heiberg Island; Lake Athabasca; and Banff National Park. Mount Saint Elias is the second highest peak in both Canada and the US, rising straight from the Pacific.
The daily in the app mixes photos from all 167 countries in the game, five a day, the same five for everyone.
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How many photos from Canada are in the game?
17. They run from Axel Heiberg Island down to Niagara Falls, and a round picks five at random.
Which photo from Canada is the hardest?
Moraine Lake, Banff; Québec City; Kluane / Wrangell – St. Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek; Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site; and Kootenay National Park, all rated hard. A miss of 693 km beyond the radius costs half the score.
Where is it easiest to get full points in Canada?
Moraine Lake, Banff: its accuracy radius is 80 km, so any pin inside that circle scores 5,000.