Houdini Needles
| Feature Type: | Peaks - Summit of a mountain or hill, or the mountain or hill itself. Plural of Peak (2). |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Head of Smith Creek, W side of Columbia Reach Kinbasket Lake, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°45'21"N, 117°50'40"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/13 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 4 March 1964 on 82N/13, as submitted by W.L. Putnam, Springfield, Massachussets. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"When we first saw them from the Echo Glacier they looked so impressive and impossible that we decided only Houdini could get them...." (Putnam) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |