| 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: | E of Eureka Mountain and Needles Glacier at N end of Garibaldi Provincial Park, New Westminster Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°08'59"N, 122°40'04"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 92J/2 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 17 January 1957 on 92J, as recommended by Garibaldi Park Board. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1929 by A.J. Campbell, BCLS, after Dr. Neal Marshall Carter, FRGS, in recognition of Carter's excellent mapping of the area as a mountaineer. Carter was born at Vancouver in 1902, attended UBC and was graduated from McGill University in 1929; associate chemist and oceanographer, Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, 1930-33; director, Pacific Fisheries Experimental Station at Prince Rupert, 1933-42; at Vancouver, 1942 onwards. Carter was a prominent member of the BC Mountaineering Club, and is credited with many first ascents in Garibaldi Park in 1922-23, and mapping a large section of the Park in the early days. Obituary in Canadian Alpine Journal Vol LXI, 1978, p.60. Also Mount Neal. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |