Geikie Creek
| Feature Type: | Creek (1) - Watercourse, usually smaller than a river. |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | Flows W into Fraser River headwaters above (south of) Yellowhead Lake, in Mount Robson Provincial Park, Cariboo Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 52°40'57"N, 118°28'15"W at the approximate mouth of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 83D/9 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted in the 18th Report of the Geographic Board of Canada, 31 March 1924, as labelled on BC-Alberta boundary sheet #28, 1920. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in association with Mount Geikie, in turn so-named in 1898 by J.E. McEvoy, after Sir Archibald Geikie, director-general of Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1882-1901. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |