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Geology of the Provinces of Canterbury and Westland, New Zealand : a report comprising the results of official explorations

Extent and Characteristics of the Glaciers,—Easterk Slopes of the Southern Alps

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Extent and Characteristics of the Glaciers,—Easterk Slopes of the Southern Alps.

It is natural that the Highest portion of the Southern Alps, where the most considerable glaciers in New Zealand are still found, must in the Great Glacier period have given birth to the largest ice-streams, of the enormous size of which we can scarcely form a true conception. Although in the map in illustration of this chapter the outlines of their former size are given, I think that an enumeration of the characteristic features of some of these glaciers, as to size, form, dimensions, and remnants of their morainic accumulations will be of some interest to the reader.