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

It has a latitude of -43.747278 and a longitude of  170.020417 and it’s status is: Unofficial Recorded.

Mueller, Mount: West Coast, Spenser Mountains north-west of Maruia Springs; Mueller Peak: Westland/Tai Poutini National Park: The glacier was named by Julius von Haast in 1862 after the Danish-born botanist Baron Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich von Mueller, director of the Melbourne Botanical Gardens. The peak and mount are also named after him. 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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