Mount Cook

(Move cursor over image to reveal caption)

Mount Cook

(Move cursor over image to reveal caption)

Tasman Valley

----------------------------------------------------------

Although its upper reaches are snow-covered, rocks carried by the glacier are exposed by ablation along its course, and the lower glacier is entirely rock-covered. It is almost met near its end by the meltwater of the Murchison Glacier, which approaches from the northeast before turning to flow beside the Tasman Glacier outside the moraine wall. The waters from both these glaciers pool at the end of the glacier in Lake Tasman.

----------------------------------------------------------

Tasman Lake

(Move cursor over image to reveal caption)

----------------------------------------------------------

The Tasman Glacier is the largest of several glaciers which flow south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in New Zealand's South Island. It is New Zealand's longest glacier. You can clearly see the effects of global warming which has caused the glacier to retreat up the valley, as evidenced in the original iced scouring line half way up valley wall.

----------------------------------------------------------

Tasman Glacier

(Move cursor over image to reveal caption)