New Zealand-Arthurs Pass to Fox Glacier Part 7
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Fox Glacier:
The Fox Glacier (Te Moeka o Tuawe in Māori) is a 13 km (8.1 mi) long glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It was named in 1872 after a visit by the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir William Fox. Fed by four alpine glaciers, Fox Glacier falls 2,600 m (8,500 ft) on its 13 km journey from the Southern Alps down to the coast, with it having the distinction of being one of the few glaciers to end among lush rainforest only 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level. Although retreating throughout most of the last 100 years, it has been advancing since 1985. In 2006 the average rate of advance was about a metre a week. In January 2009, the terminal face of the glacier was still advancing and had vertical or overhanging faces which were continually collapsing.
Like the nearby Franz Josef Glacier, it is one of the most accessible glaciers in the world, with its terminal face an easy walk from Fox Glacier village/Weheka. It is a major tourist attraction and about 1000 people daily visit it during high tourist season.Though people are told not to, some go beyond the barriers and climb without guides onto the glacier, whose rapid advance creates dangers of sudden ice and rockfalls.Fox Glacier township/Weheka, 6 km away from the glacier, functions mainly as a service centre for tourists, though it also services the local farming community, which had been its main focus until the 1990s (though tourism started as early as the late 1920s). The approximate township site had been gazetted as early as 1866. Bruce Bay is 46 km to the south-west of the township, and Franz Josef is 23 km north-east. State Highway 6 runs through the town.The outflow of the glacier forms the Fox River. During the last ice age, its ice reached beyond the present coastline, and the glacier left behind many moraines during its retreat. Lake Matheson formed as a kettle lake within one of these.Wikipedia
Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe, Westland, South Island New Zealand
Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe is a 13-kilometre-long temperate maritime glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Fed by four alpine glaciers, Fox Glacier falls 2,600 m (8,500 ft) on its 13 km journey from the Southern Alps down to the coast, with it having the distinction of being one of the few glaciers to end among lush rainforest only 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level. Although retreating throughout most of the last 100 years, it was advancing between 1985 and 2009. In 2006 the average rate of advance was about a metre a week.[4] In January 2009, the terminal face of the glacier was still advancing and had vertical or overhanging faces which were continually collapsing.[5] Since then there has been a significant retreat,[6] with the 2009 high level clearly visible as vegetation line on the southern slope above what is left of the lower glacier today.
The outflow of the glacier forms the Fox River. During the last ice age, its ice reached beyond the present coastline, and the glacier left behind many moraines during its retreat. Lake Matheson formed as a kettle lake within one of these. Wikipedia
Somewhere in the lower half of the glacier you can spot someone in a red jacket ... and the size of the people walking up to it on the left gives an idea of how big it still it, although so seriously shrunken
Fox Glacier Walk New Zealand
Enjoy a breathtaking glacier walk onto the world famous Fox Glacier with New Zealand.
Dear people please remember to enjoy the natural world and respect the nature and also trust in your self.
Nature is for us all to explore these tour companies are charging and making money from citizens of the world taking on guided tours.
Why? simply because we are not trusting our selves and trusting the others and what they say.
We then are conditioned by means of rules and guidance our experience becomes more controlled and managed and our joy and conduct becomes more focused in the risks and managing risks
Well the whole experience now becomes a task and the enjoyment becomes a challenge.
Please people don't let your self down and the people around you be not trusting your self.
I have constantly taken inspiration fro our nature and learned to respect the nature and trust my self and look forward in my world travels.
Enjoy dear fellow citizen. Life is to discover and experience all the dangers and challenged in front of our life.
Remember when you look at people around you they don't smile and they are stressed by all they listen to from others and what other have written down and what they read.
Not what they believe in seeing, doing and done.
Fox Glacier Valley 4K
Fox Glacier Valley/Te Moeka o Tuawe Valley, West Coast, New Zealand
November 2018
New Zealand - Fox Glacier
New Zealand - Hiking in Fox Glacier
The Fox Glacier (Te Moeka o Tuawe in Māori) is a 13 km (8.1 mi) long glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It was named in 1872 after a visit by the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir William Fox.
Geography
Fed by four alpine glaciers, Fox Glacier falls 2,600 m (8,500 ft) on its 13 km journey from the Southern Alps down to the coast, with it having the distinction of being one of the few glaciers to end among lush rainforest only 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level. Although retreating throughout most of the last 100 years, it has been advancing since 1985. In 2006 the average rate of advance was about a metre a week. In January 2009, the terminal face of the glacier was still advancing and had vertical or overhanging faces which were continually collapsing.
The outflow of the glacier forms the Fox River. During the last ice age, its ice reached beyond the present coastline, and the glacier left behind many moraines during its retreat. Lake Matheson formed as a kettle lake within one of these.
Tourism
Like the nearby Franz Josef Glacier, it is one of the most accessible glaciers in the world, with its terminal face an easy walk from Fox Glacier village/Weheka. It is a major tourist attraction and about 1000 people daily visit it during high tourist season. Though people are told not to, some go beyond the barriers and climb without guides onto the glacier, whose rapid advance creates dangers of sudden ice and rockfalls.
Fox Glacier township/Weheka, 6 km away from the glacier, functions mainly as a service centre for tourists, though it also services the local farming community, which had been its main focus until the 1990s (though tourism started as early as the late 1920s). The approximate township site had been gazetted as early as 1866. Bruce Bay is 46 km to the south-west of the township, and Franz Josef is 23 km north-east. State Highway 6 runs through the town.
The population was 375 in the 2006 Census, an increase of 117 from 2001.[10]
NEW ZEALAND, Franz Josef and Fox Glacier
Franz Josef and Fox Glacier, New Zealand
Fox Glacier - New Zealand
New Zealand - Hiking in Fox Glacier
The Fox Glacier (Te Moeka o Tuawe in Māori) is a 13 km (8.1 mi) long glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It was named in 1872 after a visit by the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir William Fox.
Geography
Fed by four alpine glaciers, Fox Glacier falls 2,600 m (8,500 ft) on its 13 km journey from the Southern Alps down to the coast, with it having the distinction of being one of the few glaciers to end among lush rainforest only 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level. Although retreating throughout most of the last 100 years, it has been advancing since 1985. In 2006 the average rate of advance was about a metre a week. In January 2009, the terminal face of the glacier was still advancing and had vertical or overhanging faces which were continually collapsing.
The outflow of the glacier forms the Fox River. During the last ice age, its ice reached beyond the present coastline, and the glacier left behind many moraines during its retreat. Lake Matheson formed as a kettle lake within one of these.
Tourism
Like the nearby Franz Josef Glacier, it is one of the most accessible glaciers in the world, with its terminal face an easy walk from Fox Glacier village/Weheka. It is a major tourist attraction and about 1000 people daily visit it during high tourist season. Though people are told not to, some go beyond the barriers and climb without guides onto the glacier, whose rapid advance creates dangers of sudden ice and rockfalls.
Fox Glacier township/Weheka, 6 km away from the glacier, functions mainly as a service centre for tourists, though it also services the local farming community, which had been its main focus until the 1990s (though tourism started as early as the late 1920s). The approximate township site had been gazetted as early as 1866. Bruce Bay is 46 km to the south-west of the township, and Franz Josef is 23 km north-east. State Highway 6 runs through the town.
Fox Glacier, Glacier Country New Zealand
Address: 6 Main Rd, Franz Josef Glacier 7859, New Zealand
Just be nothing else just be here and now with the nature, this aspect of content in life will give you so much peace and happiness.
It also Will give you self trust and self motivation.
Walk on Fox Glacier and fly over Franz Josef Glacier in a helicopter for breath- taking views of snow-capped mountains and temperate rainforest.
The way to discover any amazing experience is to walk the glacier and feel the dangers and risks to life scaling the peaks of the glacier.
Country, New Zealand ... The Fox Glacier (Te Moeka o Tuawe in Māori) is a 13 km (8.1 mi) long glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National ...
It was named in 1872 after a visit by the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir William Fox.
NZ: Fox Glacier Valley
Taken during a nine-day trip around New Zealand's south island in August 2007.
Fox Glacier Valley walk 1
Walk to the ice face of Fox Glacier, New Zealand
A gentle 2 km walk up to Ice face of the Fox Glacier. The rugged splendour of the U shaped glacial Valley with markers and interpretations to help understand the past advances and retreats of the ice sheet.
20000 years ago the glacier terminated approximately 10 km out into the Tasman sea. 10000 years ago the valley was full of ice . The clash of two tectonic plates is evident by vertical rock strata in the valley.
FOX GLACIER WALK -NEW ZEALAND !
SOUTH ISLAND TRIP ! AMAZING !
Fox Glacier Valley walk 2
New Zealand 2014 - Walk to Fox Glacier
The Fox Glacier (Te Moeka o Tuawe in Māori) is a 13 km (8.1 mi) long glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island It was named in 1872 after a visit by the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, Sir William Fox. Fed by four alpine glaciers, Fox Glacier falls 2,600 m (8,500 ft) on its 13 km journey from the Southern Alps down to the coast, with it having the distinction of being one of the few glaciers to end among lush rainforest only 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level
Ice in Fox Glacier river
Fox Glacier with huge chunks of ice
Fox Glacier
Beautiful day in Fox Glacier
New Zealand Self-drive Trip 2015, Day 8 (Franz Josef Glacier)
New Zealand south island self-drive road trip 2015, Franz Josef Glacier not too far from Fox Glacier situated at West Coast Glacier Country of NZ. It was a good weather that day for the valley walk to get to the closet point to Franz Josef Glacier, unfortunately the river in the valley was overflow and flooded, and blocked the walking path.
Franz Josef & Fox Glaciers New Zealand February 2017
Fox terminal face collapse Jan17
Terminal face ice collapse at Fox Glacier South Westland NZ, in January 2017. Video credit: Veronica Ayala