Douglas Glacier (West Coast, New Zealand)

The Douglas Glacier is a glacier in New Zealand's Southern Alps located between Mount Sefton and .^[1] It is named after the explorer Charles Edward Douglas.^[2]

The glacier sits in a valley and is fed by materials consisting of many streams and frequent avalanches which drop from its névé down a cliff face of over 1,000 feet.^[1] The glacier itself was approximately 5 miles long in 1908. ^[1] The glacier has a relatively high rate of moraine materials, consisting of "friable phyllites and schistose grauwackes".^[1]

At the foot of the glacier is a lake that was created by glacier recession.^[3] Reports from 1892 and 1934 indicated it had "an anomalously slow lake development".^[4] The Douglas River (formerly known as the Twain) begins in the lake at the foot of the glacier.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand. House of Representatives. 1908. pp. 295–.
^ Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia. D. Bateman. 1987. ISBN 9780908610211.
^ Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Otago Daily Times and Witness Newspapers Company. 1937.
^ New Zealand Alpine Journal. New Zealand Alpine Club. 1995.

Coordinates: 43°41′S 170°00′E / 43.68°S 170.00°E / -43.68; 170.00

v t Landforms of Westland District, New Zealand
Alpine passes	Arthur's Pass Browning Pass / Nōti Raureka Copland Pass Haast Pass / Tioripatea
Bays	Bruce Bay Jackson Bay / Okahu
Canyons and gorges	Hokitika Gorge Otira Gorge
Glaciers	Agassiz Glacier Douglas Glacier Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere Olivine Ice Plateau Volta Glacier
Headlands	Abut Head Awarua Point Knights Point
Islands	Open Bay Islands
Lakes and lagoons	Abel Lake Alpine Lake / Ata Puai Lake Gault Lake Ianthe / Matahi Lake Kaniere Lake Mahinapua Lake Mapourika Lake Matheson Lake Moeraki Ōkārito Lagoon Lake Paringa Saltwater Lagoon Lake Wahapo
Mountain ranges	Butler Range Southern Alps
Mountains	Mount Adams Aoraki / Mount Cook Mount Aspiring / Tititea Mount Dampier Mount Graham Mount Haast Mount Hopkins La Perouse Lendenfeld Peak Mount Rolleston Mount Sefton Silberhorn Mount Tasman Mount Vancouver Mount Whitcombe
Rivers	Adams River Arahura River Arawhata River Balfour River Barlow River Barn River Barrier River Bettne River Big Wainihinihi Creek Blue River Burke River Butler River Callery River Cascade River Clarke River Clearwater River Cook River / Weheka Copland River Cropp River Deception River Donald River Douglas River Drake River Duncan River Edison River Fork River Fox River Gorge River Gunn River Haast River Hacket River Hall River Hapuka River Harman River Hinatua River Hokitika River Hope River Jackson River Jerry River Kaniere River Karangarua River Kokatahi River Lambert River Landsborough River Lord River Macfarlane River Mahitahi River Makawhio River (Jacobs River) Manakaiaua River Maori River Martyr River Mikonui River Moeraki River Morse River Mueller River Mungo River Ngatau River North Barlow River Ohinemaka River Ohinetamatea River Ōkārito River Okuru River Omoeroa River Oneone River Otehake River Ōtira River Ōtoko River Paringa River Perth River Poerua River Rolleston River Rotokino River Ruera River Smoothwater River Smyth River Stafford River Strauchon River Styx River Taipo River Taramakau River Te Rahotaiepa River Toaroha River Tōtara River Totarakaitorea River Troyte River Tuke River Turnbull River Waiho River Waikukupa River Waipara River Waita River Waitaha River Waitangitāhuna River Waitangiroto River Wanganui River Whakaikai River Whakapohai River Whataroa River Whitcombe River Wilkinson River Willberg River Williamson River Wills River

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