NEW ZEALAND GLACIERS.
(OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Dunedin, November 23.
In an address on the glaciers of New Zealand, Professor Park said they are reputed to be the largest in existence outside of the Poler regions, with perhaps the existence of some in the higher Himalayas. They are found clinging to both flanks of the main divide of the Middle Island, their greatest development being within the province of Canterbury. _ On ihe West Coast they descend to within 750 feet of the sea level, and into the midst of evergreen forest. On the east side, where the slope is more gradual, and the annual precipitation less, the terminal face of the glacier ice is seldom found below 2,500 feet. An examination of the present physical features of country affords abundant evidence that the present glaciers are but mere remnants of ice masses that once covered hundreds of square miles in many places reaching even to the sea.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 November 1901, Page 4
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156NEW ZEALAND GLACIERS. Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 25 November 1901, Page 4
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