Franz Josef
Franz Josef is a village and glacial area at the foot of the western slopes of Mount Cook, in the middle of the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 483 residents
- Description: village in New Zealand
- Also known as: “Franz Josef / Waiau”, “Franz Josef Glacier”, “Franz Josef Glacier Village”, “Franz Josef, New Zealand”, “Franz Josef/Waiau”, “Franz Joseph Glacier”, “Franz Joseph/Waiho”, “Waiau”, “Waiho”, and “Waiho Gorge”
Places of Interest
Highlights include West Coast Wildlife Centre and St James Church.
West Coast Wildlife Centre
Zoo
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
The West Coast Wildlife Centre is a kiwi-rearing facility in Franz Josef, New Zealand. A public-private partnership with the Department of Conservation and Te Rūnunga o Makaawhio of Ngāi Tahu, it hatches eggs of the kiwi species rowi and Haast tokoeka retrieved from the wild.
St James Church
Church
Photo: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0.
St James Church is an heritage-listed Anglican church located in Franz Josef on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand. Set in a garden setting, the church was built in 1931 in a Tudor Revival style and is notable for its use of clear glass windows and the view over Waiho Gorge from its altar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westland Tai Poutini National Park.
Westland Tai Poutini National Park
Westland Tai Poutini National Park is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site known as Te Wahipounamu in South West New Zealand. The national park lies on the West Coast of the South Island in the Southern Alps, adjacent to Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park and to the north of Mount Aspiring National Park.
Franz Josef
- Category: locality
- Location: Westland District, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.389° or 43° 23′ 20″ southLongitude
170.1819° or 170° 10′ 55″ eastPopulation
483Elevation
154 metres (505 feet)Named after
Franz Josef GlacierIATA airport code
WHOUnited Nations Location Code
NZ WHOOpen location code
4V8GJ56J+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 176971775OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Bavarian to Turkish—“Franz Josef” goes by many names.
- Bavarian: “Franz Josef/Waiau”
- Cebuano: “Franz Josef”
- Dutch: “Franz Josef”
- French: “Franz Josef”
- German: “Franz Josef”
- German: “Franz Josef/Waiau”
- Hungarian: “Franz Josef/Waiau”
- Irish: “Waiau”
- Malay: “Franz Josef, New Zealand”
- Maori: “Waiau”
- Turkish: “Franz Josef/Waiau”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Franz Josef”. Photo: Tiimta, CC BY-SA 3.0.