Mueller Glacier

The Mueller Glacier[1] is a 13-kilometre (8.1 mi) long glacier flowing through Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in the South Island of New Zealand.

It lies to the west of Mount Cook Village within the Southern Alps, flowing roughly north-west from its névé near Mount Montgomerie before curving around the Sealy Range as it approaches its terminus.

The glacier was named after German-Australian botanist and explorer Baron Ferdinand von Mueller.

[2] Based on dating of a yellow-green lichen of the Rhizocarpon subgenus, Mueller Glacier is considered to have had a Little Ice Age maximum mass between 1725 and 1730.

[3] White Horse Hill, a small hill to the north of Mount Cook Village, represents the moraine left from this period.

Satellite picture of the Mount Cook region, identifying the Mueller Glacier in the bottom left.