Fox Glacier
Fox Glacier village is in "Glacier Country" on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Tucked discreetly into the rainforest-clad foothills of the Southern Alps, it has a stunning outlook across surrounding farms and offers breathtaking views of New Zealand’s two highest peaks, Aoraki/Mt Cook and Mt Tasman.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Steve & Jem Copley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 710 metres
- Description: glacier in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tuawe” and “Te Moeka o Tuawe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Mitchell and Cone Rock.
Chancellor Hut
Wilderness hut
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chancellor Hut is an alpine hut in the Southern Alps of New Zealand. It is located on the Chancellor Ridge near the edge of a cliff, 200 metres above the Fox Glacier, at an altitude of 1,260 metres above sea level in the Westland Tai Poutini National Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fox Glacier.
Fox Glacier
Village
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
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 / Te Moeka o Tuawe.
Fox Glacier
- Category: landform
- Location: West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Satellite Map
Discover Fox Glacier from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Aragonese to Welsh—“Fox Glacier” goes by many names.
- Aragonese: “Chelera Fox”
- Aragonese: “Glaciar Fox”
- Belarusian: “Ледавік Фокса”
- Catalan: “Fox Glacier”
- Cebuano: “Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- Cebuano: “Fox Glacier”
- Chinese: “福克斯冰河”
- Danish: “Fox Glacier”
- Dutch: “Fox glacier”
- Dutch: “Fox gletsjer”
- Dutch: “Foxgletsjer”
- Estonian: “Foxi liustik”
- French: “glacier Fox”
- French: “Glacier Fox/Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- French: “Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- German: “Fox Glacier”
- German: “Fox-Gletscher”
- German: “Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- Japanese: “フォックス氷河”
- Korean: “폭스 빙하”
- Malay: “Fox Glacier”
- Maori: “Fox Glacier”
- Maori: “Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- Maori: “Te Moeka-o-Tuawe”
- Persian: “یخچال طبیعی فاکس”
- Polish: “Fox Glacier”
- Portuguese: “Geleira Fox”
- Portuguese: “Glaciar Fox”
- Portuguese: “Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- Romanian: “Gheţarul fox”
- Romanian: “Ghețarul Fox”
- Russian: “Ледник Фокса”
- Slovenian: “Ledenik Fox/Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- Spanish: “Glaciar Fox”
- Swedish: “Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- Swedish: “Fox Glacier”
- Swedish: “Te Moeka o Tuawe”
- Welsh: “Rhewlif Fox”
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