Small ice tunnel

White light consists of all colours of the rainbow. Blue light bends (refracts) better than the other colours and is therefore able to leave the ice better. This makes the ice blue and is the reason the sky is blue.

Merry Christmas from Fox Glacier

December 24th 2006
Queenstown to Fox Glacier December 24, 2006 After a night’s stop in Queenstown to do laundry and reclaim our luggage, we hit the road and headed west. We had to climb up out of the valley, and pushed our little rental car to it’s limit! We made it all the way out to the Tasman Sea in a couple of hours. We stopped briefly in Arrowtown, an old gold-mining town and then again in Wanaka. We follo ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Fox Glacier

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

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