The Harper Glacier is a glacier in the Waitaha / Canterbury region of the Te Waipounamu / South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
It has a latitude of -43.530889 and a longitude of 170.424694 and it’s status is: Unofficial Recorded.
Canterbury, a tributary of the Murchison Glacier. Harper Saddle: Southern Alps. After Arthur Paul (A.P.) Harper, a pioneer explorer of the Southern Alps and a founder of the New Zealand Alpine Club.
Harper explored the Murchison Glacier with Guy Mannering and two others in January 1891. A bivvy, creek, and rock at Harper Saddle were also named after Harper.
His father was Leonard Harper; see Harper Pass. 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.