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

It has a latitude of -43.619167 and a longitude of  170.18175 and it’s status is: Unofficial Recorded.

Southern Alps. Named by the Rev. W.S. Green in 1882 after John Ball, an Irishman who was the first president of the Alpine Club. Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.

It’s geographical description is noted as: Feature shown on: NZMS260 H36 Edition 1 1992 Limited Revision 1996.


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