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This was just so moody and beautiful and I absolutely loved the waterfalls - they just made this view magical and somehow just managed not to be overshadowed by the massive glacier =)
Coming down off the mountain range a few miles to the north of Fox Glacier township is the Franz Josef Glacier.
The Franz Josef (Ka Roimata o Hinehukatere in Māori)[1][2] is a 12 km (7.5 mi) long[3] glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Together with the Fox Glacier 20 km (12 mi) to the south, it is unique in descending from the Southern Alps to less than 300 metres (980 ft) above sea level, amidst the greenery and lushness of a temperate rainforest.[2]
The area surrounding the two glaciers is part of Te Wahipounamu, a World Heritage Site park. The river emerging from the glacier terminal of Franz Josef is known as the Waiho River.[4]
What this photo doesn't show is the seemingly endless loop of helicopters getting a closer look.
In New Zealand, if you are not keen on walking, then you can rack up a lot of spend.
At the mouth of the Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand. As the glacier has retreated, newly glaciated rocks have become exposed, as here. The glacier would have moved from lower left to upper right; the bed of the bench is almost level. The orange areas are lichens that thrive in this area and on the freshly-exposed rocks. Zoom to over-ride any moire effects you may be getting!
Looking down on the Franz Josef Glacier from around 2,500 m. Fed by smaller glaciers on either side that gouge out and grind down large quantities of rocks along with the ice, the glacier melts when it gets down to around 300 m above sea level, visible in the picture about 12 km away. In the clear air, distances are very deceptive.
Rocks below the terminus of Franz Josef glacier, New Zealand. This glacier has advanced and retreated many times, evidently including here. It moved from left to right in this view. Quite a few separate channels and grooves seem to be cut into this highly-striated bedrock. The many near-horizontal scratches (as in upper left) were most likely caused by rocks in the glacier scraping against the bedrock as the glacier moved by.
Archive diving.
I just remembered something sad relating to this photo. I took it just over a year ago when on the West Coast with my family. We visited this glacier and then went to see Lake Matheson, planning to head to Fox Glacier afterwards. When at Lake Matheson we heard a siren but didn't know what it was for until we drove to Fox Glacier and found that the area had been closed because two tourists had gone past the barrier, and all of the warning signs, and were crushed by falling ice. Such a terrible tragedy and I'm sure their family still misses them so much and wishes that they had paid attention to the warning signs (even if it does look like the man is dancing under falling rocks/ice)
Echar la vista hacia arriba del glaciar Franz-Josef acojona bastante, 12 kilómetros de paredacas de hielo de 10 metros que se mueven casi un metro al día.
Looking up the Franz-Josef glacier is quite impressive, 12 kilometers of ice walls 10 meters high each moving up to 1 meter a day.
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Sunset in the town of Franz Josef Glacier on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. The rain just started to fall as my wife and I rushed down to the mostly dry bed of the Waiho river to find an intresting foreground to set against the dramatic skies. The sky really did look spectacular, though it was with vivid shades of yellow, orange, red and grey. I've used a bit of artistic licence to introduce tones that didn't exist by using the sneaky tactic of altering the white balance mode in-camera. You can get some striking (thought false) effects with sunsets using settings like fluorescent mode to bring out vivid pinks and purples.
Franz Josef Glacier (Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere) was explored by local iwi and in 1865 by geologist Julius von Haast, who named it after the Austrian emperor. The glacier is five kilometres from the town of the same name, and a 1.5 hour walk will take you to within 750m of its terminal face.
It clagged in when I got to the top of Mt Moltke, so waited several hours, snoozing, looking for crystals and taking self portraits...
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Franz Josef Glacier. The Franz Josef Glacier is located in Westland National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. It descends from the Southern Alps to just 240 metres above sea level
Green & red lichen covering the rocks below a waterfall on the south island of New Zealand. You might be surprised that within a mile of this green, temperate rainforest is the edge of Franz Josef Glacier. The western coast of the south island of New Zealand is unique in that you have glaciers next to rain forest, not too far from sea level. Part of the reason that the ice gets so low is that the mountains are so steep and the glacier moves so fast that it gets quite far into warmer climate before melting.
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Another blast from the past. This photo was taken while on a holiday on the South Island of New Zealand in 2004. I did some light HDR processing to bring out the details of the mountain wall on the left.
Ps. Pretty impressive what the good old Canon 300D was capable of.
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Some days it's definately good to have been kicked out of bed. This was definately one of them.
The photo was a bonus but getting into town and managing to get the last two reserve spaces on a heli hike up onto Franz Josef Glacier.
It turned out to be the only flight that left that day as the weather closed in pretty quickly.
Seeing the seracs and crevasses from above really gives some scale to the place. I'd recommend it to anyone.