Tasman Glacier, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

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

#16 among attractions in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

Natural attraction, Natural feature

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Tasman Glacier, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park

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Haupapa / Tasman Glacier is the largest glacier in New Zealand, and one of several large glaciers which flow south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in New Zealand's South Island. ()

Alternative names: Length: 14.6 miCoordinates: 43°37'0"S, 170°11'60"E

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Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park New Zealand

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

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

7.5 miSW
Hiking, Hiking trail
Hooker Valley Track, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
191 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.
3.3 miNW
Towering mountain with trekking routes
Aoraki / Mount Cook, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
84 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.
3.3 miNW
Natural attraction, Protected area
Southern Alps, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
84 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.
5.7 miS
Natural attraction, Lake
Blue Lake, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
146 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.
6.3 miSW
Natural attraction, Lake
Hooker Lake, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
162 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.
4.1 miN
Mountain
Mount Haast, Westland National Park
106 min walk • Mount Haast is a mountain summit located in the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, in the Westland District of New Zealand. The mountain was named after the German-born geologist Julius von Haast by James Mackay.
4.9 miS
Natural attraction, Lake
Tasman Lake, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
125 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.
3.6 miNW
Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Vancouver, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
93 min walk • Mount Vancouver is a peak in the Southern Alps. At 3,309 metres it is New Zealand's fourth highest named summit. It is an elevation on the ridge leading north from Aoraki / Mount Cook, between Mount Dampier and the Clarke Saddle.
6.5 miNE
Natural attraction, Mountain
Malte Brun Mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park
165 min walk • Malte Brun is the highest peak in the Malte Brun Range, which lies between the Tasman and Murchison Glaciers within New Zealand's Southern Alps.
5.2 miN
Mountain
Douglas Peak, Westland National Park
133 min walk • Douglas Peak is a 3,077 metres high mountain in the Southern Alps on the South Island of New Zealand. It is located few kilometres northeast of the second highest mountain of the country, the 3,497 metres high Mount Tasman.
4.3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Tasman, Westland National Park
109 min walk • Mount Tasman is New Zealand's second highest mountain, rising to a height of 3,497 metres. It is located in the Southern Alps of the South Island, four kilometres to the north of its larger neighbour, Aoraki / Mount Cook.