Crescent Spire
| Feature Type: | Spire - Tall, slender, sharp-pointed peak; or a mountain. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | E side of Vowell Glacier at S end of Bugaboo Provincial Park, NW of Invermere, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 50°45'00"N, 116°46'37"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82K/15 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 15 November 1962 on 82K/15, as labelled on Reference Map 17-0-N (date not cited), and as identified in Canadian Alpine Journal 1947, p.154. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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So-named in 1933 by Conrad Kain and J.M. Thorington, who made the first ascent, because the base of the mountain forms a crescent on the north margin of Bugaboo snowfield (Americal Alpine Journal, ii, p.189) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |