Findlay Glacier
| Feature Type: | Glacier - Mass of permanent snow and ice flowing from an area of snow accumulation on higher ground. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | N of Mount Findlay in the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy, NE of Kaslo, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°05'59"N, 116°29'03"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/1 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 7 October 1954 on 82K/11, as identified in The Purcell Range of British Columbia, by J.Monroe Thorington, American Alpine Club, 1946, p.81. Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |
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"...a gorgeous peak, Mt. Findlay, was clothed in a sweep of glacier that ends in an ice-tongue near a grove of larch.... " (© The Purcell Range of British Columbia by J. Monroe Thorington, American Alpine Club, 1946, p.85) Source: BC place name cards, correspondence and/or research by BC Chief Geographer & Geographical Names Office staff. |