NIWA Climate database http://cliflo.niwa.co.nz/

GLIMS glacier database http://nsidc.org/glims/

World Glacier Monitoring Service http://www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/

 

Dart Glacier

An extensive collection of measurements, documents and photographs collected by Jane Forsyth and Graham Bishop as part of of glaciological research between 1974 – 1988.
Details are described here

Browning Range snow cover surveys

An enormous photographic collection of the seasonal and annual changes in snow cover for an alpine basin in the Browning Range collected by Mark Crompton from 1996 until 2008. The collection is held in the NIWA archives and is referenced in the NIWA Metadata catalogue: Browning Range snow extent photographic collection

New Zealand Airforce 1955 Southern Alps photographic collection

The New Zealand Airforce undertook an oblique mountain photography flight in April 1955 capturing images of many of New Zealand’s glaciers. An article describing the work features in Hunter (2021), with the photos available from the Air Force Museum in Wigram, Christchurch

Hunter, G., 2021. Noel Odell’s New Zealand Legacy. New Zealand Alpine Journal 86–91.

New Zealand historical aerial imagery

An archive of old aerial imaged of New Zealand is available from Retrolens