In early 2007 we used the snowline survey data plus earlier topographic maps and a GPS survey of the ice levels of the larger glaciers to calculate total ice-volume changes for the Southern Alps ...

A third of the permanent snow and ice of New Zealand’s Southern Alps has now disappeared, according to our new research based on National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research aerial ...

Covering nearly two-thirds of New Zealand’s South Island, the Alps run from north to south, from wine country to the jagged battlegrounds of Middle-earth and fiords of the south.

Ten years of GPS data taken from New Zealand's Southern Alps have helped scientists determine how fast this mountain range is rising. The data are the first to record the vertical movement of a ...

Aoraki/Mt Cook. Scientists are trekking into the central Southern Alps to unlock the secrets of what remains one of the least understood fault systems in the country. Photo / Air Safaris It’s ...

Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 21, No. 4, The Alps in Europe and the Southern Alps in New Zealand (Nov., 2001), pp. 340-349 (10 pages) The European Alps (Alps) and Southern Alps of New ...