The Christopher Johnson Glacier is a glacier in the Ōtākou / Otago region of the Te Waipounamu / South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
It has a latitude of -44.444801 and a longitude of 168.636198 and it’s status is: Official Assigned.
Name submitted by Paul Powell of Dunedin, for inclusion on maps in a book Men Aspiring that he had written. Mr Powell had a 24 year association with the area. The glacier was named after Squadron Leader Christopher Johnson RNZAF, who died in a Harvard aircraft crash, at the head of Rough Creek below Plunket Dome, during a search for two missing climbers on 17/1/1953. Johnson was a well known member of the New Zealand Alpine Club.
It’s geographical description is noted as: Glacier on Matukituki River West Branch, aspect of Islington Dome. Cascade Survey District.