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"Grand Tour" helicopter flight with Fox and Franz Heliservices
"This (40 min) flight brings together all the highlights of our packages in one ultimate experience! Explore both the Fox & Franz Josef Glaciers, Aoraki/Mt Cook & Mt Tasman, including the Tasman Glacier. We top this off by landing you on the snow."
location: Franz Josef / Waiau, New Zealand
author: Jan Helebrant
license CC0 Public Domain Dedication
"Grand Tour" helicopter flight with Fox and Franz Heliservices
"This (40 min) flight brings together all the highlights of our packages in one ultimate experience! Explore both the Fox & Franz Josef Glaciers, Aoraki/Mt Cook & Mt Tasman, including the Tasman Glacier. We top this off by landing you on the snow."
location: Franz Josef / Waiau, New Zealand
author: Jan Helebrant
license CC0 Public Domain Dedication
New Zealand, South Island
There are many waterfalls if you hike through the vally to the Franz Josef Glacier, some smaller, some bigger, but all beautiful!!
Franz Josef Glacier is a large glacier located in the Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the South Island of New Zealand. The glacier is named after Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, and it is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the region.
The glacier is around 12 km long and descends from the Southern Alps to the valley floor, ending just 300 meters above sea level. Visitors to the glacier can take guided tours, which involve hiking across the glacier and exploring its many crevasses, ice caves, and other features.
Franz Josef Glacier is also a popular destination for adventure sports, with activities such as ice climbing, heli-hiking, and glacier kayaking available for those seeking a more intense experience. The surrounding area is home to numerous hiking trails and scenic lookout points, providing opportunities to enjoy the stunning natural beauty of the glacier and the surrounding mountains.
In recent years, the glacier has experienced significant melting and retreat, due in part to climate change. As a result, visitor access to the glacier has been restricted at times for safety reasons, and it is important for visitors to follow all guidelines and instructions from tour operators and park officials to ensure their safety while visiting this natural wonder.
The glacier at its maximun advance in 2008. Due to global warming it has rapidly retreated nearly one kilometre up the valley.
Where has it gone? The glacier was still advancing until 2008, but since then it has entered a very rapid phase of retreat. As is the case for most other New Zealand glaciers which are mainly found on the eastern side of the southern alps, the shrinking process is attributed to global warming
The world's only alpine parrot, the Kea. This one is clearly up to no good, as usual. Taken near Franz Josef Glacier, New Zealand.
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"The Franz Josef (Ka Roimata o Hinehukatere in Māori) is a 12 km long glacier located in Westland National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Together with the Fox Glacier 20 km to the south, it is unique in descending from the Southern Alps to less than 300 metres above sea level, amidst the greenery and lushness of a temperate rainforest.
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." ...........
The glacier is currently 12 km long and terminates 19 km from the Tasman Sea. Fed by a 20 square kilometres (7.7 sq mi) large snowfield at high altitude, it exhibits a cyclic pattern of advance and retreat, driven by differences between the volume of meltwater at the foot of the glacier and volume of snowfall feeding the névé. Due to strong snowfall it is one of the few glaciers in New Zealand which is still growing as of 2007, while others, mostly on the eastern side of the Southern Alps, have been shrinking heavily, a process attributed to global warming.
Having retreated several kilometres between the 1940s and 1980s, the glacier entered an advancing phase in 1984 and at times has advanced at the phenomenal (by glacial standards) rate of 70 cm a day. The flow rate is about 10 times that of typical glaciers. Over the longer term, the glacier has retreated since the last ice age, and it is believed that it extended into the sea some 10,000 to 15,000 years ago." ..........
"Based on past variations, scientists expect that Franz Josef Glacier will retreat 5 km and lose 38% of its mass by 2100 in a mid-range scenario of warming."
Reference Wikipedia - Franz Joseph Glacier
"Since instrumental measurements began in the late 19th century, New Zealand's average air temperatures have fluctuated substantially year to year, and a number of studies indicate that New Zealand's average temperature has increased.
The Royal Society of New Zealand's statement on climate change notes that between 1908 and 2006, there has been a clear upward linear trend in the country-wide average air temperature of 0.9°Celsius."
Reference -Wikipedia - Climate Change in New Zealand
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Detail of the rock formations at the foot of Franz Josef Glacier on the south island of New Zealand.
News of a brawling Okarito Justice of the Peace reached the Minister of Justice on 4 February 1905.
James Donovan wasn’t letting his elevation to public office interfere with his larrikin behaviour. In the company of his mate Adamson, Donavan rampaged down the main street of the tiny goldfields village shedding clothes, blowing a whistle and rubbing tins full of stones up and down the walls of buildings much to the annoyance of those within. In another incident he challenged the owner of the nearby Glacier Hotel in Waiho to a duel. It was this man, William Batson, who complained to the Minister of Justice about Donovan’s behaviour. He enclosed Donovan’s challenge to “name the day” advising Batson that “you will get all you were looking for”. Donovan even used his position as Justice of the Peace to justify his actions, telling Batson that “when you allow people to lead you put up with the consequences.” The cause of the quarrel and outcome of the duel is not recorded.
Shown here is Batson’s letter to the Minister of Justice.
ACGS 16211 J1/725/bl 1905/158
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