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Kōrero: Glaciers and glaciation

Glaciers during the last ice age

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Glaciers during the last ice age

This map shows the maximum extent of ice during the last (Ōtira) glaciation, between 75,000 and 14,000 years ago.

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Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

Source: Colin J. Burrows, Julius Haast in the Southern Alps. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2005, p. 71

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Eileen McSaveney, Glaciers and glaciation – The ice ages, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/map/10742/glaciers-during-the-last-ice-age (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Eileen McSaveney, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009, updated 1 April 2021.