Franklin Glacier is a
mountain glacier in the
Waddington Range of the
Pacific Ranges in southwestern
British Columbia, Canada. It lies at the head of the Franklin River adjacent to
Mount Waddington
Mount Waddington, once known as Mystery Mountain, is the highest peak in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. Although it is lower than Mount Fairweather and Mount Quincy Adams, which straddle the United States border between Alaska ...
, the highest mountain entirely within British Columbia.
The name of the glacier was officially adopted in 1928 after having been submitted by mountaineer
Don Munday in August 1927 for its association with the Franklin River.
It is the namesake of the
Franklin Glacier Complex
The Franklin Glacier Complex is a deeply eroded volcano in the Waddington Range of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Located about northeast of Kingcome, this sketchily known complex resides at Franklin Glacier near Mount Waddington. It i ...
, a heavily eroded geologic feature consisting of
dikes
Dyke (UK) or dike (US) may refer to:
General uses
* Dyke (slang), a slang word meaning "lesbian"
* Dike (geology), a subvertical sheet-like intrusion of magma or sediment
* Dike (mythology), ''Dikē'', the Greek goddess of moral justice
* Dikes, ...
,
subvolcanic A subvolcanic rock, also known as a hypabyssal rock, is an intrusive igneous rock that is emplaced at depths less than within the crust, and has intermediate grain size and often porphyritic texture between that of volcanic rocks and plutonic r ...
intrusion
In geology, an igneous intrusion (or intrusive body or simply intrusion) is a body of intrusive igneous rock that forms by crystallization of magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth. Intrusions have a wide variety of forms and com ...
s and overlying
volcanic rocks.
A base camp was established on the Franklin Glacier on June 23, 1934, by climbers
Neal Carter
Neal Marshall Carter (December 12, 1902 – March 3, 1978) was a Canadian marine biologist, cartographer, photographer, mountaineer and surveyor. He is most famous for his explorations in British Columbia, especially in the Coast Mountains where ...
, Alan Lambert, Alec Dalgleish and Eric Brooks as part of an attempted
first ascent of Mount Waddington. Their ascent abruptly ended three days later when Dalgleish fell to his death from Waddington's southeast ridge.
References
External links
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Glaciers of the Pacific Ranges
Waddington Range
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