With a height of at least and rising to within only of the sea surface, Bowie Seamount is the shallowest submarine volcano on the British Columbia Coast, as well as in Canadian waters, and one of the shallowest submarine volcanoes in the northeast Pacific Ocean. Most seamounts are found hundreds to thousands of metres below sea level, and are therefore considered to be within the deep sea. In fact, if Bowie Seamount were on land it would be about higher than Whistler Mountain in southwestern British Columbia and lower than Mount Robson, the highest mountain in the Canadian portion of the Rocky Mountains.