The only place in the world where water flows into three oceans

Explore Montana's Triple Divide, the only place on Earth where water flows into the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans.

A mountain in Glacier National Park in Montana, USA, Triple Divide is where water can flow into one of three oceans: the Pacific , the Atlantic, or the Arctic. This is the only place on Earth that connects three oceans instead of three seas or a combination of seas and oceans. Photo: Logic Images/Alamy.

According to the National Park Service (NPS), snowmelt from the mountaintops can move westward through the Columbia River basin and empty into the Pacific Ocean or flow down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers into the Atlantic Ocean. Photo: NPS photo.

Alternatively, snow or rain that falls on the Triple Divide can also flow into Hudson Bay via the Saskatchewan River. Photo: Andy Curtis CCL: https://bit.ly/3yAASET.

The International Hydrographic Office considers Hudson Bay to be part of the Arctic Ocean. Therefore, the Triple Divide flows into three separate oceans. Photo: peaksandstreams.com.

Triple Divide Peaks sits on the Continental Divide, an imaginary line that runs through the Rocky Mountains and separates major river systems that flow into the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans. Photo: peaksandstreams.com.

Triple Divide is one of two hydrographic peaks on the Continental Divide and across the United States. The other is Snow Dome in Canada. Photo: peaksandstreams.com.

Triple Divide and Snow Dome also sit on major watersheds – natural boundaries that separate different watersheds. Triple Divide sits on the Laurentian Divide, which separates Hudson Bay to the north and the Gulf of Mexico to the south. Photo: peaksandstreams.com.

Meanwhile, Snow Dome sits on the Arctic Divide, which separates the Arctic Ocean basin to the northwest and Hudson Bay to the southeast. Photo: peaksandstreams.com.

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