Fox Glacier
Fox Glacier, called Weheka until the 1940s, is a village on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The village is close to the eponymous Fox Glacier.- Type: Village with 249 residents
- Description: locality in Westland District, West Coast Region, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Fox Glacier Village”, “Te Weheka”, “Tuawe”, and “Weheka”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Our Lady of the Snows and Fox Glacier School.
Fox Glacier
- Category: locality
- Location: Westland District, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.46447° or 43° 27′ 52″ south
Longitude
170.01772° or 170° 1′ 4″ east
Population
249
Elevation
163 metres (535 feet)
Named after
IATA airport code
FGL
United Nations Location Code
NZ FGL
Open location code
4V8GG2P9+63
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
Discover Fox Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Dutch to Turkish—“Fox Glacier” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Fox Glacier”
- French: “Fox Glacier (ville)”
- French: “Fox Glacier”
- German: “Fox Glacier”
- German: “Weheka”
- Maori: “Te Moeka”
- Maori: “Weheka”
- Spanish: “Glaciar del Zorro”
- Turkish: “Fox Glacier”
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Highlights include DoC Visitor Centre and Department of Conservation.
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