Historical Records of Glacier Fluctuations in Mt Cook National Park, New Zealand
A Century of Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4638170 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne F Gellatly (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 151 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86 |
| Publication date | 1985-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geographical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/633283 |
| OpenAlex | W2328859100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 1 |
Historical records, including maps, photographs, paintings and written accounts, are used to reconstruct the changing ice levels and terminal positions of the six main valley glaciers in Mt Cook National Park, New Zealand. The historical record, which began in 1862, is compared with the New Zealand climatic record for the same period. Patterns of glacial fluctuation are related to the general trends in climate. Between 1862 and 1888 there was locally important glacier recession. This was followed by a cooler period marked by glacier advance. A glacier stillstand is recorded during the first four decades of the present century and since 1940, a period of general temperature warming, the glaciers have all receded. Ice fronts have retreated up to 5 km from positions reached in 1862 and ice levels have dropped over 100 m
Archaeology · Climate change · Climatology · Environmental change · Geography · Glacier · Glacier mass balance · National park · Physical geography · Cryospheric studies and observations · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · History · Oceanography · Polar Research and Ecology
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Historical Geography
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 2013 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |