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Franklin Glacier is a mountain glacier in the Waddington Range of southwestern British Columbia, at the head of the Franklin River beside Mount Waddington, the highest mountain entirely within the province. Officially adopted in 1928 after Don Munday proposed the name in 1927, it also gave its name to the Franklin Glacier Complex, a heavily eroded geologic feature of dikes, subvolcanic intrusions, and volcanic rocks. The glacier is closely connected to early exploration of Mount Waddington: in 1934 Neal Carter, Alan Lambert, Alec Dalgleish, and Eric Brooks based an ascent attempt there, which ended in tragedy when Dalgleish fell to his death three days later.
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