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

It has a latitude of -43.613889 and a longitude of  170.387417 and it’s status is: Unofficial Recorded.

Faraday, Mount: Named by Julius von Haast after the British scientist David Faraday, who was associated with Sir Humphrey Davy (inventor of the miner’s Davy lamp). Source: Reed, A.W. & Peter Dowling, Place Names of New Zealand, 2010.

It’s geographical description is noted as: Feature shown on: NZMS260 I36 Edition 1 1989.


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