Tasman Glacier glacier ( English Tasman Glacier ) - a complex valley glacier , the largest in New Zealand .
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English Tasman glacier | |
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Square | 156.5 km² |
Length | 29 km |
Thickness | 270-630 m |
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The glacier lies on the eastern slope of the Southern Alps , on the territory of Mount Cook National Park.
The length of the glacier is 29 km, the area is 156.5 km². On the right side of the valley of the glacier rises Mount Cook (3754 m). The firn line runs at an altitude of 1,800 m. The thickness of the ice on the main trunk of the glacier is 270–630 m. The tongue descends to a height of 600 m; the lower 8–9 km of the tongue are covered with a continuous moraine cover. The amount of precipitation at an altitude of 2200 m reaches 7000 mm per year. Melting glacier caused the appearance of the eponymous lake in the 1980s.
The glacier was named after Abel Tasman .
Sources
- Tasman glacier // Dictionary of modern place names / Rus. geogr. oh Mosk. Centre; Under total ed. Acad. V.M. Kotlyakov . Institute of Geography RAS . - Yekaterinburg: U-Factory, 2006.
- Glacier Tasman - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .