Tasman River
43°42′23″S 170°10′18″E / 43.7064°S 170.1717°E / -43.7064; 170.1717
The Tasman River is an alpine braided river flowing through Canterbury, in New Zealand's South Island.
The river's headwaters are in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, where it is the outflow of the proglacial Tasman Lake. It is also fed by the glacial waters of the tributary Murchison River, from Murchison Glacier, and the short Hooker River, an outflow of the proglacial lakes of the Hooker and Mueller glaciers.
The Tasman River flows south for 25 kilometres (16 mi) through the wide flat-bottomed Tasman Valley in the Southern Alps and into the northern end of the glacial Lake Pukaki, this forming part of the ultimate headwaters of the Waitaki hydroelectric scheme.
In 2019 a report was released giving the results of a pilot study on the invertebrate biodiversity present in the Tasman River flood plain.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Tasman Lake, Canterbury – NZ Topo Map". NZ Topo Map. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Lake Pūkaki lake levels". Meridian Energy. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ "Tasman River, Canterbury – NZ Topo Map". NZ Topo Map. Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 16 September 2016.
- ^ Murray, Tara J. (15 September 2019). "Invertebrates of the Tasman River Plain: Characteristics of the invertebrate community and an analysis of sampling methods for biodiversity assessment" (PDF). www.doc.govt.nz. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
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- Aoraki / Mount Cook
- Mount Dampier
- Dixon Peak
- Douglas Peak
- Mount Elie de Beaumont
- Glacier Peak
- Mount Haidinger
- Mount Hamilton
- Mount Hicks
- La Perouse
- Lendenfeld Peak
- Malte Brun
- Mount Ollivier
- Mount Sefton
- Silberhorn
- Mount Tasman
- Mount Teichelmann
- Mount Vancouver
- Hooker Glacier
- Mueller Glacier
- Murchison Glacier
- Tasman Glacier
- Blue Lake
- Hooker Lake
- Tasman Lake
- Godley River
- Hooker River
- Murchison River
- Tasman River
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