Hooker Glacier, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

Name: Hooker Glacier
Address: Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand

#17 among attractions in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

Natural attraction, Natural feature

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Hooker Glacier, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

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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. ()

Alternative names: Length: 6.84 miCoordinates: 43°40'0"S, 170°7'1"E

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Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park New Zealand

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Hooker Glacier – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Hooker Valley Track, Aoraki / Mount Cook, Mount Ollivier, Southern Alps.

2.2 miSW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Hooker Valley Track, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
56 min walk • The Hooker Valley Track is the most popular short walking track within the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand. At only 5 kilometres length and gaining only about 100 m in height, the well formed track can be walked by tourists with a wide range of level of fitness.
5.1 miN
Towering mountain with trekking routes
Aoraki / Mount Cook, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
131 min walk • Aoraki / Mount Cook is the highest mountain in New Zealand. Its height, as of 2014, is listed as 3,724 metres. It sits in the Southern Alps, the mountain range that runs the length of the South Island.
4.8 miSW
Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Ollivier, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
124 min walk • Mount Ollivier is a 1,933 m mountain in the Canterbury region of New Zealand. It is a peak in the Sealy Range, about 2.5 km west of Mount Cook Village. The peak is named after mountaineer Arthur Ollivier, who died in 1897. Mount Ollivier was Sir Edmund Hillary's first major climb, in 1939.
5 miN
Natural attraction, Protected area
Southern Alps, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
129 min walk • The Southern Alps are a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand's South Island, reaching its greatest elevations near the range's western side.
3.2 miSE
Natural attraction, Lake
Blue Lake, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
81 min walk • Blue Lake is a small lake at the foot of the Tasman Glacier in inland Canterbury, in the central South Island of New Zealand. Its outflow is the Tasman River, part of the Waitaki River system.
3.8 miSW
Natural attraction, Lake
Sealy Tarns, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
97 min walk • Sealy Tarns is a small flat area with two small tarns halfway up the northern slopes of the Sealy Range, New Zealand. It is accessible from the Hooker Valley and Mount Cook Village via a tramping track maintained by the Department of Conservation.
1 miSW
Natural attraction, Lake
Hooker Lake, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
26 min walk • Hooker Lake is a proglacial lake that started to form in the late 1970s by the recent retreat of the Hooker Glacier. It is in the Hooker Valley, in the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand's South Island, just south of Aoraki / Mount Cook.
3.9 miW
Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Sefton, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
100 min walk • Mount Sefton is a mountain in the Aroarokaehe Range of the Southern Alps of New Zealand, just 12 kilometres south of Aoraki / Mount Cook. To the south lies Mount Brunner, and to the north The Footstool, both more than 400 metres shorter.
2.7 miSE
Natural attraction, Lake
Tasman Lake, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
71 min walk • 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 small meltwater ponds on the Tasman Glacier. By 1990, these ponds had merged into Tasman Lake.
5.8 miSW
Natural attraction, Natural feature
Mueller Glacier, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
148 min walk • The Mueller Glacier is a 13-kilometre long glacier flowing through Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand.
5.5 miN
Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Hicks, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
140 min walk • Mount Hicks is a mountain in the Southern Alps in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park on the South Island of New Zealand. The mountain is 3,216 metres high. It is above the Hooker Glacier, in the vicinity of Aoraki / Mount Cook. The mountain was first ascended in 1906. The starting point for ascents is the Empress hut.