Mueller Glacier

The Mueller Glacier^[1] is a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) long glacier flowing through Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. It lies to the south of Aoraki/Mount Cook, high in the Southern Alps, and flows north. Its meltwaters eventually join the Tasman River.

The glacier was named after German-Australian botanist and explorer Baron von Mueller.^[2]

Based on dating of a yellow-green lichen of the Rhizocarpon subgenus, Mueller Glacier is considered to have had a Little Ice Age maximum mass between 1725 and 1730.^[3]

References

^ "Place Name Detail Mueller Glacier". New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database. Retrieved 2010-01-27.
^ Tee, Garry J. (2006). "Science on the Map: Places in New Zealand Named After Scientists". The Rutherford Journal. 2. Retrieved 2008-09-25.
^ Winkler, Stefan (2000). "The 'Little Ice Age' maximum in the Southern Alps, New Zealand: preliminary results at Mueller Glacier". The Holocene. 10 (5): 643–647. doi:10.1191/095968300666087656. Retrieved 2010-06-27.

43°44′S 170°03′E / 43.733°S 170.050°E / -43.733; 170.050

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[1] "Place Name Detail Mueller Glacier". New Zealand Geographic Placenames Database. Retrieved 2010-01-27.

[2] Tee, Garry J. (2006). "Science on the Map: Places in New Zealand Named After Scientists". The Rutherford Journal. 2. Retrieved 2008-09-25.

[3] Winkler, Stefan (2000). "The 'Little Ice Age' maximum in the Southern Alps, New Zealand: preliminary results at Mueller Glacier". The Holocene. 10 (5): 643–647. doi:10.1191/095968300666087656. Retrieved 2010-06-27.

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