Hooker River
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| Hooker River | |
|---|---|
 Hooker River in front of Aoraki / Mount Cook | |
 Route of the Hooker River | |
.png)  Mouth of the Hooker River  Hooker River (South Island) | |
| Location | |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Hooker Glacier |
| • coordinates | 43°41′18″S 170°06′00″E / 43.688400°S 170.100000°E |
| • elevation | 877 m (2,877 ft) |
| Mouth | |
• location | Tasman River |
• coordinates | 43°45′08″S 170°09′10″E / 43.7522°S 170.1528°E |
• elevation | 655 m (2,149 ft) |
| Length | 10 km (6.2 mi)[1] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Hooker River → Tasman River → Lake Pukaki → Pukaki River → Tekapo River → Lake Benmore → Lake Aviemore → Lake Waitaki → Waitaki River → Pacific Ocean |
| Bridges | Upper Hooker Suspension Bridge, Hooker Bluff Suspension Bridge, Lower Hooker Suspension Bridge, Tasman Valley Road truss bridge |
The Hooker River is a river in Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It flows south from Hooker Lake, the glacier lake of Hooker Glacier, which lies on the southern slopes of Aoraki / Mount Cook. After 3 kilometers, it flows through Mueller Glacier Lake, gathering more glacial water, before joining the braided streams of the Tasman River, also an outflow of a glacier lake.
The geographic Hooker items were named by the Canterbury provincial geologist, Julius von Haast, after the English botanist William Jackson Hooker.[2]
