Place names in the Canadian Rockies

Billings Butte

Feature type: mount
Province: British Columbia
Location: Other name for Extinguisher Tower

“Billing’s Butte or the Extinguisher,” wrote Charles Walcott after his visit in 1912, “is the most valuable spot to the geologist in the Rockies.”


References:

Walcott, Charles D. “The monarch of the Canadian Rockies.” National Geographic Magazine (1913).


Related place names:
Extinguisher Tower
Comments? Spiral Road- Place Names - 22 September 2002