The Hooker Glacier is a glacier in the Waitaha / Canterbury region of the Te Waipounamu / South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
It has a latitude of -43.662861 and a longitude of 170.118389 and it’s status is: Unofficial Recorded.
Named by Julius von Haast after Sir William Jackson Hooker, botanist and director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and father of Dr Joseph Dalton Hooker, who was a friend of von Haast. 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.