Massive icebergs have filled up at least a quarter of the meltwater lake at the foot of New Zealand’s largest glacier, the Tasman. The lake started to form in the late 1970s as the glacier rapidly retreated - fuelled largely by a warming climate - and it is now about 6km long. Glacier watchers estimate the latest release of ice from the Tasman Glacier, the ice river that flows past Aoraki/Mt Cook, extends at least 1.5km. A guide, Richard Bottomley, posted an aerial photo of this week’s release of ice from the Tasman. “This is one of the biggest releases of ice from the Tasman terminal that I’ve seen,” he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 08, 2019 01:41 UTC