Hooker Glacier
Hooker Glacier is one of several glaciers close to the slopes of Aoraki / Mount Cook in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It is not as large as its neighbour, the Tasman Glacier, measuring 11 kilometres in length.Photo: Mr. Tickle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Copland Pass and Lean Peak.
Copland Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Copland Pass is an alpine pass in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. Known as Noti Hinetamatea by the indigenous Ngāi Tahu, the pass follows the route of the Makaawhio ancestor Hinetamatea and her sons Tātāwhākā and Marupeka.
Mount Rosa
Peak
Mount Rosa is a 2,161-metre-elevation mountain in Canterbury, New Zealand. Mount Rosa is situated 2½ km east of Hooker Glacier.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mount Cook National Park and Aoraki / Mount Cook.
Mount Cook National Park
Photo: Petero9, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park is a national park dominated by New Zealand's two highest mountains, Aoraki / Mount Cook and Mount Tasman. Several other high peaks of the South Island's Southern Alps are nearby.
Aoraki / Mount Cook
Village
Photo: Pseudopanax, CC BY 3.0.
Mount Cook Village, officially Aoraki / Mount Cook, is located within New Zealand's Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park at the end of State Highway 80, only 15 kilometres south of the summit of the country's highest mountain, also called Aoraki / Mount Cook, in the Southern Alps. Aoraki / Mount Cook is situated 10 km south of Hooker Glacier.
Hooker Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 1,084 metres
- Description: glacier in Canterbury Region of New Zealand
- Category: landform
- Location: New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Hooker Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hooker Glacier”
- Chinese: “胡克冰河”
- Danish: “Hooker-gletsjeren”
- French: “glacier Hooker”
- French: “Glacier Hooker”
- German: “Hooker-Gletscher”
- Hebrew: “קרחון הוקר”
- Persian: “یخچال طبیعی هوکر (نیوزیلند)”
- Persian: “یخچال طبیعی هوکر”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Hooker”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Edith Peak and Fitzgerald Pass.
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