Bugaboo Spire
| Feature Type: | Spire - Tall, slender, sharp-pointed peak; or a mountain. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | W side of Crescent Glacier at S end of Bugaboo Provincial Park, NW of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°44'43"N, 116°47'20"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/10 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 9 June 1960 on 82K as a long-established name in association with Bugaboo Creek and Pass. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Name suggested by the sight of a gendarme encountered by the first party to climb the mountain (Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol VIII, 1917, p.26, including photograph.) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |