Brenta 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°45'35"N, 116°46'20"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 21 November 1962 on 82K/15, as originally suggested by Conrad Kain (Geographic plan 41Q, file 01863) Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named by Conrad Kain, following his 1916 climb in the Bugaboo area; this sharp peak resembles the Gugliadi Brenta in the Lombard Alps. So-identified in American Alpine Journal, ii, 187. [the AAJ citation appears incomplete.] Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |