Guests aboard Glacier Explorers boats witnessed the result of a spectacular glacier calving at Tasman Glacier Terminal Lake that occurred around daybreak recently.Long term glacier observer and General Manager Tourism for Aoraki Mount Cook Alpine Village Ltd, Denis Callesen said he believed today's calving would again have moved around 30 million tonnes of ice - around the same amount as last February.
"It was an absolutely magnificent event. A huge chunk of ice has literally broken away from the terminal face, and then fractured into dozens of icebergs. This is the first time that a calving has occurred across the whole 650m-wide terminal face," said Mr Callesen.
"It's an amazing and enormous natural phenomenon."
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