1. Natural Landscapes
The Southern Alps
Aoraki/Mt Cook

2. Aoraki/Mt Cook

4. Relief

5. Aoraki – The Cloud Piercer

6. Glaciers, u-shaped valleys, moraine and rugged peaks

7. Cirque glaciers

8. Horn Peaks and Aretes
Summit of Mt Cook
Mt Tasman

9. Hooker Glacier and terminal lake. Can you spot the snout of the glacier?

10. Mt Cook and Tasman Valley. What shape is it
Mt Cook and Tasman Valley. What shape is it? Can you spot the Terminal lake?

11. The Tasman Glacier. Can you see any Cirque glaciers feeding into it?

12. Can you spot the snout of the Tasman Glacier?

13. Mueller Glacier. Can you see the lateral moraine?

14. Can you see old terminal moraine from the Hooker Glacier?
What shaped valley is this?

15. Old lateral moraine beside Lake Pukaki.
Now forms very distinct terracing.

16. Hooker valley – screes abound
Hooker valley – screes abound. Can you see the lateral moraine of the Hooker Glacier?

17. Braided rivers

18. Where is the alluvial fan?

19. How many finger lakes can you see?
Where is Mt Cook in this satellite image?

20. Finger Lake

21. Climate

22. Snow, ice and cloud

23. Snow, ice and sun

24. Rain, rain and more rain!

25. Vegetation

26. Mt Cook Lily

27. Edelweiss

28. Alpine vegetation. Can you see the Spaniards?

29. Tussock grassland. What human modification can you see?
Snow Tussock

30. Tussock and tarn

31. Hebe and scrub

32. Human Modification

33. View of Mt Cook Village. Can you see the village?

34. Canals cut through the landscape.
Can you see the salmon farm?

35. Where the Ohau canal meets the Pukaki canal
Which is which?

36. Penstock pipes going into Lake Pukaki