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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 2 (May 1, 1939)
“Above me are the Alps, — The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls — Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps …” — Byron. — The terminal face of the Tasman Glacier, near the Hermitage, Mt. Cook. The Tasman Glacier is the greatest outside the Himalayan and Polar regions, being eighteen miles long by one to three miles wide. — (Thelma R. Kent, photo.)
“Above me are the Alps,
The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls
Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps …”
Byron.
The terminal face of the Tasman Glacier, near the Hermitage, Mt. Cook. The Tasman Glacier is the greatest outside the Himalayan and Polar regions, being eighteen miles long by one to three miles wide.
(Thelma R. Kent, photo.)