IRIAN JAYA, INDONESIA, and NEW ZEALAND

Anderton (1973) had previously identified 527 glaciers more than 0.1
km2 in area and estimated the volume of water stored as perennial snow
and ice in the glaciers of the Southern Alps to be approximately 50 km3 ,
with an area of 810 km2. Results from the present glacier inventory
indicate that the total number of glaciers exceeding 0.01 km2 in area in
the Southern Alps is 3,155, with an estimated ice volume of 53.3 km3 and
a total glacier area of 1,159 km2 . In the Mount Whitcombe region 819
glaciers have been inventoried; 351 of these occur to the west of the main
divide (Westland area) and the remaining 468 to the east of the main
divide (Canterbury area). Many glaciers have areas close to 0.2 km2 , and
82 percent of the Canterbury glaciers are this size or smaller (fig. 3),
while in Westland 70 percent of the glaciers are equal to or less than 0.2
km2 (fig. 4). Fifty percent of Canterbury glaciers are smaller than 0.06
km2 , while 50 percent of Westland glaciers are smaller than 0.09 km2 .
Canterbury glaciers predominantly face south to southeast, and most
Westland glaciers face between west and north (fig. 5).
H28 SATELLITE IMAGE ATLAS OF GLACIERS OF THE WORLD
Figure 2. Oblique aerial photograph
looking northeast on 22 March 1983 at the
Garden of Eden, an ice field that has
numerous outlet glaciers. A second ice
field, the Garden of Allah, is visible behind
the ridge separating the two neves.
Photograph by Trevor J.H. Chinn, New Zea­
land Geological Survey, slide A 42-29.