Franz Josef Glacier from Peter's Pool

Ice Ice Baby

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September 25th 2010
Listed as a must do in every guide book we have read and recommended to us by everyone we met in New Zealand, the Franz Josef and Fox Glaciers on the west coast of the South Island, were penciled in to be one of the highlights of our whole trip, let alone our time here. Would we get up close and personal with huge ice formations and freezing caves on a guided hike on the glaciers? Or maybe we woul ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more