Murchison Glacier
The Murchison Glacier is an 18-kilometre long glacier flowing through Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. Lying to the east of the Malte Brun range and west of the Liebig Range, high in the Southern Alps, it flows from the Tasman Saddle at 2,435 m mostly southwestwards to around 1,110 m.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Cooper and Brodrick Peak.
Brodrick Peak
Peak
Mount Acland
Peak
Mount Acland is a 2,562-metre-elevation mountain in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. Mount Acland is situated 3½ km east of Murchison Glacier.
Murchison Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 1,534 metres
- Description: glacier in New Zealand
- Category: landform
- Location: Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.52831° or 43° 31′ 42″ south
Longitude
170.4001° or 170° 24′ 0″ east
Elevation
1,534 metres (5,033 feet)
Open location code
4V8GFCC2+M2
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Satellite Map
Discover Murchison Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Murchison Glacier” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Murchison Glacier”
- Chinese: “默奇森冰河”
- German: “Murchison-Gletscher”
- Japanese: “マーチソン氷河”
- Polish: “Lodowiec Murchisona”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Murchison”
- Ukrainian: “Льодовик Мерчісон”
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