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

It has a latitude of -43.357 and a longitude of  170.711111 and it’s status is: Unofficial Recorded.

Named by the early runholder and explorer J.B.A. Acland, after Agnes Acland.  It is part of a sequence of female first names given to glaciers in the region; see also Frances Glacier, Helen Glacier and Mary Glacier. 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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