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    Tasman Glacier (officially Haupapa / Tasman Glacier) is the largest glacier in New Zealand, and one of several large glaciers which flow south and east...
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  • with the name Mount Tasman, in the Southern Alps of South Island Tasman Bay, at the northern end of South Island Tasman Glacier, in the Southern Alps...
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    of the main divide of the Southern Alps, with the Tasman Glacier to the east and the Hooker Glacier to the southwest. Mount Cook is ranked 10th in the...
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  • The Murchison Glacier is an 18-kilometre (11 mi) long glacier flowing through Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. Lying...
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    Southern Alps of New Zealand. It is not as large as its neighbour, the Tasman Glacier, measuring 11 kilometres (roughly 6–7 miles) in length. The geographic...
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    Tasman Lake is a proglacial lake formed by the recent retreat of the Tasman Glacier in New Zealand's South Island. In the early 1970s, there were several...
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    these glaciers covered more than 10 hectares. These include: Fox Glacier Franz Josef Glacier Hooker Glacier Mueller Glacier Murchison Glacier Tasman Glacier...
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    outflow of the proglacial Tasman Lake. It is also fed by the glacial waters of the tributary Murchison River, from Murchison Glacier, and the short Hooker...
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    Agassiz Glacier (New Zealand) Tasman Glacier Fox Glacier Glaciers of New Zealand Glacial retreat since 1850 Climate change in New Zealand "Glaciers in New...
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    as: The Tasman Peninsula. The Tasman Bridge. The Tasman Highway. The Tasman Sea. In New Zealand: The Tasman Glacier. Tasman Lake. The Tasman River. Mount...
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    landscape and vegetation. Glaciers cover 40% of the park, including the county's largest glacier, Haupapa / Tasman Glacier. In 1990, the park was included...
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    these glaciers covered more than 10 hectares. These include: Fox Glacier Franz Josef Glacier Hooker Glacier Mueller Glacier Murchison Glacier Tasman Glacier...
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    expose ice which air could not reach. For example, lucky tourists at Tasman Glacier, New Zealand in January 2011 saw an iceberg roll over to reveal startling...
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    main rowing venues Lake Ōhau Glaciers: Tasman Glacier Hooker Glacier Skifields: Fox Peak Mt Dobson Round Hill Tasman Glacier Heliski National parks: Aoraki...
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    several glaciers like Johannes Glacier in the north, Burton Glacier to the east, Times Glacier to the west and Anna Glacier, a tributary to the Tasman Glacier...
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    highest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook (3,754 m) and its longest glacier, Haupapa / Tasman Glacier (29 km). A focus for mountaineering, ski touring and scenic...
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    At the Tasman Glacier some 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the epicentre, around 30 million tonnes (33 million ST) of ice tumbled off the glacier into Tasman...
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    the Southern Alps contained over 3,000 glaciers larger than one hectare, the longest of which – the Tasman Glacier – is 23.5 kilometres (14.6 mi) in length...
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    size, with the largest – Tasman Glacier – with an area of 101 square kilometres (39 sq mi). Eight of New Zealand's glaciers are found on Mount Ruapehu...
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    from plunging into the bergschrund at the upper reaches of the Khumbu Glacier. This feat was documented in 1975, in the film The Man Who Skied Down Everest...
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    Park in the South Island of New Zealand. It is fed by the Murchison Glacier and flows into Tasman Lake, thus effectively feeding the Tasman River. v t e...
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  • metres (11,473 ft) high Mount Tasman. The mountain lies in between the Three-thousanders Mount Haidinger in the south and Glacier Peak northeast. To the west...
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    Hooker Glacier. This lake is the source for the Hooker River, a small tributary of the Tasman River, which flows into Lake Pukaki. The glacier was named...
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    highest peak in the Malte Brun Range, which lies between the Tasman and Murchison Glaciers within New Zealand's Southern Alps. According to Land Information...
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  • Edmund Hillary was on a test run for Everest, and was backpacking up the Tasman Glacier towards Malte Brun Hut; all five were carrying loads of 70 lb (32 kg)...
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  • Pacific Islands: From the Sydney Opera House to Uluru, New Zealand's Tasman Glacier to the Cook Islands' Dance Festival, the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea...
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    and eventually the Tasman Glacier will disappear completely. In 1973 the Tasman Glacier had no terminal lake and by 2008 Tasman Lake was 7 km long, 2 km...
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    highest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook (3,724 m) and its longest glacier, Haupapa / Tasman Glacier (29 km). A hotspot for mountaineering, ski touring and scenic...
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    Pukaki, encompassing Aoraki / Mount Cook and standing adjacent to the Tasman Glacier. In 1889, the highest point of the range was 3763m, but this has since...
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  • Ross Glacier, which leads to Tasman Glacier, and on the northwest flank is Explorer Glacier, which leads to Fox Glacier. The rock consists mainly of variants...
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