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Kōrero: South Canterbury region

Tasman Glacier

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Tasman Glacier

In 1862 Julius Haast painted this watercolour of the Tasman Glacier valley (centre). It shows the classic ‘U’ shape of glacial valleys, with steep mountainsides and flat valley floors.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: C-097-061

by Johann Franz Julius von Haast

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

John Wilson, South Canterbury region – Early European history, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/artwork/11334/tasman-glacier (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 February 2017.