Glaciation Limit in New Zealand's Southern Alps

Isoglacihypses depicting the glaciation limit of high relief and gentlest where broad topoin New Zealand closely parallel the crest of the graphic saddles occur along the main divide. Southern Alps and conform approximately to Topography and a strong windward-leeward isohyets of mean annual precipitation. The precipitation gradient appear to be the principal glaciation limit rises southeastward with a grad- parameters controlling the configuration of the ient of 19 + 6 m km-~, being steepest in areas glaciation limit.