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.
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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.
Fox Glacier
- Type: Glacier with an elevation of 710 metres
- Description: glacier in New Zealand
- Category: landform
- Location: West Coast, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-43.5° or 43° 30' southLongitude
170.0833° or 170° 5' eastElevation
710 metres (2,329 feet)Open Location Code
4V8GG32M+28GeoNames ID
2190959Wikidata ID
Q1147722Fox Glacier Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- 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
- English: Fox Glacier/Te Moeka o Tuawe
- English: Fox Glacier / Te Moeka o Tuawe
- Estonian: Foxi liustik
- French: Glacier Fox
- French: Te Moeka o Tuawe
- French: glacier Fox
- German: Fox-Gletscher
- German: Fox Glacier
- German: Te Moeka o Tuawe
- Japanese: フォックス氷河
- Korean: 폭스 빙하
- Malay: 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
Other Places Named Fox Glacier
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- Roberts PointLocality
- Franz Josef
- Westland Tai Poutini National Park
- TatareLocality, 17 km northeast
- Welcome FlatLocality, 18 km southwest
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Fox Glacier. Photo: Steve & Jem Copley, CC BY-SA 2.0.