Calving and debris
The image shows the calving frontal ice margin of Hooker Glacier in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It depicts the steep ice front as well as the considerable cover of supraglacial debris on its surface, showing active mass movement processes and glacier transport.
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Location
- Oceania (221)
- Australia and New Zealand (208)
- New Zealand (120)
- Exact location (170.1164 E, -43.6706 S)
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2362 × 3543 px;
image/jpeg; 6.5 MB
Camera:
Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Taken on 2
April
2007
Submitted on Feb. 23, 2016
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Stefan Winkler (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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