CONFLUENCE — Landsborough River - Haast River - River Origins, Destinations and Confluences on Waymarking.com

Just off of SH 6 in Mt. Aspiring National Park is a roadside pulloff and a place to view the confluence of the Landsborough and Haast rivers. This location is on the Haast riverbank opposite from where the Landsborough joins in. Unfortunately due to thick vegetation it is impossible to get a good view of the upper Haast.

The plaque reads:

The Landsborough River is the major tributary of the Haast. Its source is 40 miles away at the McKerrow glacier in the vicinity of Mount Cook National Park. Towards the head of the Landsborough can be seen Mt. Ward a prominent peak on the Main Divide. In the middle distance Clarke Mound the long forested ridge between the Clark and Landborough was over-ridden by ice during a major phase of glaciation approximately 100,000 years ago. It is likely that earlier most of the major peaks in view would have been submerged by an ice sheet.

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