Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C01080:clause:1_2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2016C01080
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 2
Character Range: 53217–55470

2  Description
  Canada Glacier is located in the Taylor Valley, in the McMurdo Dry Valleys. The Area includes most of the glacier forefront area on the east side of the lower Canada Glacier, on the north shore of Lake Fryxell. It comprises gently to moderately sloping ice‑free ground at an elevation of 20 m to 220 m above sea level with seasonal melt water ponds and streams draining Canada Glacier into Lake Fryxell.
  The southern boundary of the Area is defined as the shoreline of Lake Fryxell to the water's edge. This boundary extends north‑east for about 1 km along the shoreline from the north‑east corner of the boundary of where the Canada Glacier meets Lake Fryxell at 77° 37.20 S, 163° 3.64 E to the south‑east corner of the boundary which is marked with a cairn at 77° 36.83 S, 163° 4.88 E.  The cairn is adjacent to a small island in Lake Fryxell. The island was once a part of a small peninsula extending into Lake Fryxell but lake level rise has turned it into an island. The peninsula was once marked by a large split rock surrounded by a circle of rocks which was a benchmark for the 1985 NZ survey of the original Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), but is no longer visible. A wooden post marking the Dry Valley Drilling Project Site 7 (1973) is visible on the island.
  A moraine ridge extending northward upslope from the south‑east corner of the boundary defines the eastern boundary of the Area. A cairn is located at 77° 36.68 S, 163° 4.40 E on a knoll on the ridge 450 m from the south‑east corner of the boundary. The ridge dips sharply before joining the featureless slope of the main Taylor Valley wall. The north‑east boundary corner of the Area is in this dip and is marked by a cairn at 77° 36.43 S, 163° 3.73 E.
  From the north‑east boundary cairn, the northern boundary slopes gently upwards and west for 1.7 km to Canada Glacier, to the point where the stream flows from the glacier and snow field, through a narrow gap in the moraine at 77° 36.42 S, 162° 59.69 E.
  The western boundary follows the glacier edge for about 1 km down a slope of lateral moraine of fairly even gradient to the south‑west corner of the boundary where the glacier meets the lake shore at 77° 37.20 S, 163° 3.64 E.