Tasman Glacier Lake, New Zealand 2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                  The Lake Tasman, South Island New Zealand

 

 

마운틴 쿡에서 흘러내려온 빙하가  타스만 호수 Lake Tasman를 이루고

이것이 타스만 강으로 흘러 푸카키 호수  Lake Pukaki를 이루고

와이타키  강을 이루었다가 태평양으로 흘러든다고.

윗사진은 타스만 호수에서 보트를 타고

타스만 호수에 떠있는 빙산을 관광하는 모습

 

 

The Tasman Glacier is the largest of several glaciers which flow south and east towards the Mackenzie Basin from the Southern Alps in New Zealand's South Island. It is 29 kilometres long and as much as 4 kilometres wide, and is entirely within the borders of Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. The depth at its most is 600 meters.

The Tasman flows south from the southern slopes of the Minarets peak, along the eastern flank of Aoraki/Mount Cook, the peak of which is only five km from the glacier. It is almost met partway along its length by the meltwater of the Murchison Glacier, which approaches from the northeast before turning to flow beside the Tasman Glacier outside the moraine wall.

The waters from both these glaciers pool at the end of the glacier in Lake Tasman, before flowing south to join the outflow from the nearby Hooker and Mueller Glaciers in the wide valley of the Tasman River, whose braided streams flow south into Lake Pukaki. They eventually flow into the Waitaki River and to the Pacific Ocean north of Oamaru.