The Frances Glacier is a glacier in the Waitaha / Canterbury region of the Te Waipounamu / South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.

It has a latitude of -43.316028 and a longitude of  170.776111 and it’s status is: Unofficial Recorded.

Canterbury, Upper Clyde River Valley. Named after Frances Tripp. The first complete traverse of the glacier was made in 1933 by M. Townsend, S. Forbes and G.C.T. Burns. Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.

It’s geographical description is noted as: Feature shown on: NZMS260 I35 Edition 1 1993 Limited Revision 1996.


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