Franz Josef

“There's an ice berg in the river”...

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February 6th 2011
Friday 4th February – Sunday 6th February ...I said as we turned up the access road to Franz Josef Glacier. Maybe not ice-bergs but there were indeed chunks of ice coming down the Waiho River. We were spending a couple of days in Glacier Country. There are over 140 glaciers flowing from the Southern Alps, but only two (Franz Josef and Fox) reach the temperate climate of the lower ra ... 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