Depth of Tasman Glacier That solid ice nearly a quartet of a mile deep forms the main floor of the Tasman Glacier in the Mount Cook region has been proved by novel scientific measurements just completed by Dr. E. Marsden, of the Department of Scjcntifi'c and Industrial Research. The measurement was taken with a siesmograph used by the Byrd Antarctic ex pedition, and, apart from the work done in Antarctica, it was only the second time in the world that the depth of a glacier has been measured in this way. The method (says the Christchurch Press) is entirely new for New Zealand, The measurement was made opposite the Ball Hut, where the glacier is between three and four miles wide.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 88, 15 April 1935, Page 9
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