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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 New Zealand's longest glacier. ==Geography== At in length, Tasman Glacier is New Zealand's longest glacier.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park )〕〔This excludes glaciers in New Zealand's Antarctic claim, the Ross Dependency.〕 It is as much as wide and thick, and lies entirely within the borders of Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park. The glacier covers an area of and starts at a height of above sea level. Snowfall during the winter and spring seasons accumulates to . After the summer melt, remains.〔 The Tasman flows south from the southern slopes of the Minarets peak, along the eastern flank of New Zealand's two highest mountains, Mount Tasman and its higher southern neighbour Aoraki/Mount Cook. Although its upper reaches are snow-covered, rocks carried by the glacier are exposed by ablation along its course, and the lower glacier is entirely rock-covered. It is almost met near its end 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tasman Glacier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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