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

It has a latitude of -43.546211 and a longitude of  170.300599 and it’s status is: Official Assigned.

Name in common use.; The glacier was named after the mountaineer Joanne Turnbull in 1900. Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.

It’s geographical description is noted as: The north-eastern tributary of the Malte Brun Glacier.


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