Place

Franz Josef Glacier

West Coast, New Zealand

Seen through Ice & Glaciers.

Franz Josef Glacier
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Ice & Glaciers

What the ice carved, and left behind

7 sites

Most glaciers keep to bare rock and thin air, retreating higher as the world warms.

On the ground

Every site here, coloured by lens.

170.16°E170.17°E43.445°S43.44°S43.435°S43.43°S 1 km N Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere Viewpoint Sentinel Rock Alex Knob Roberts Point Reading the glacier's memoirs What goes up must come down – a land in motion A shadow of its former self…

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