Lies in the valley between the Navigator and Banks Ranges, to the west of the Baker Saddle (2179m), on the main divide of the Southern Alps, and flows westward into the Strauchon River, a headwater feeder of the Copland River, which in turn flows into the Karangarua River.
Strauchon Glacier
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Moberly, Patricia: Arthur Paul Harper album of mountaineering photographs
Date: 1850-1890
By: Harper, Arthur Paul, 1865-1955; Moberly, Patricia, active 1990s
Reference: PA1-f-207
Description: Album probably compiled by the mountaineer and explorer, A P Harper. Harper was also probably the photographer for many of the prints, especially those of mountains and mountaineering. There are Harper and Ackland family photographs which include interior and exterior views and views of the garden, of Ilam, the family mansion in Christchurch. The other main group of photographs relate to A P Harper's activities as a mountaineer and explorer in the Fox and Franz Joseph glacier regions. Some of the climbers active in the Southern Alps during the 1880s and 1890s are depicted. W S Green and his two Swiss guides, and at least one photograph taken by Green during his unsuccessful attempt to reach the summit of Mount Cook in 1882. Fitgerald, Zurbriggen, Mannering, and Dixon were all men that Harper was associated with as a mountaineer. As an explorer he was associated with Charles Douglas, and there are photographs of Douglas, Leonard Cockayne the botanist, and John Roberts of the Westland district survey. There are also many photographs of the mountains, glaciers, rivers, and gorges of the Southern Alps. Some of the English photographs at the beginning of the album may be associated with A P Harper's brother Charles who became an Anglican priest. He may have been the C C Harper who was at Keble College and Cuddesdon theological college, Oxford. There are two interiors of "C C Harper's room at Keble College", and a number of photographs of family groups taken in the grounds of the vicarage at Patea where Charles Harper was vicar from 1894 to 1900. The album ends with A P Harper and his house at Thames, and more British photographs, in particular several pages of Jersey taken about 1897 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).
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Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Strauchon Glacier, Bakers Saddle and Mount Cook fro...
Date: 1870 - 1900
From: Douglas, Charles Edward 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast Sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified]
By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916
Reference: E-059-q-070
Description: High mountain peaks and a glacier labelled on front (L-R) Mt Hector Mt Cook & Bakers Saddle. Banks peak on verso 14/11/69 . Note by J D Pascoe left to right La Perouse. Dampier. Cook. Other Titles - Baker Saddle Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) on page of sketchbook. Physical Description: Pencil, crayon and watercolour, 162 x 244 mm
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Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :Baker's Saddle - Strackon Glacier. [1870-1900].
Date: 1870 - 1900
From: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916 :[Mountain and West Coast sketches. Peaks and rivers etc. identified. 1870-1900.]
By: Douglas, Charles Edward, 1840-1916
Reference: E-058-047
Description: Shows the glacier flanked by precipitous peaks. Other Titles - Strauchon Glacier Other Titles - Baker Saddle Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 94 x 115 mm.