Glacier Info Cards
Glacier Birth
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Fox Glacier is fed by a large (30km2) snow field, called the NEVE, which sits under the Main Divide at an altitude of 2700m - Westland National Park, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Weather
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Massive blocks of ice are worked by the elements to form unimaginable sculptures - Westland National Park - New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Movement
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
A small crack in the ice can rapidly erode into a spectacular blue ice cave - Westland National Park - New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Blue Ice
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
By the sun, rain and wind sculptured massive seracs with the meltwater lake formed below - Westland National Park - New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Tectonics
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Walking Track through the juicy green podocarp rainforest surrounding Lake Matheson - Westland National Park - South Island - New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Ice Flow
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
As the fast flowing Franz Josef Glacier accelerates down into the valley floor its top brittle layers become cracked into open crevasses - Westland National Park - New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Ice Age
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Franz Josef Glacier descends to an altitude of just 250meters above sea level, and terminates 19km from the coastline - Westland National Park - South Island - New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Maori Legend
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Melt-water within the glacier creates tunnels big enough to explore - Westland National Park - New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Glacial Valleys
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Majestic Mt.Tasman 3.497 the second highest peak on the left and Mt.Cook 3.754 the highest mountain in New Zealand to the right, dominate the Southern Alps - Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Glacial Erosion
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
A helicopter flying across the vast (30km2) Franz Josef Glacier neve is dwarfed by the size of the ice blocks and seracs - Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Types of Glaciers 1 - Ice Sheets
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
It is a mere 18km from the coastline to the Southern Alps. Franz Josef Glacier is sliding its way down in the top left corner - Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Types of Glaciers 2 - Valley Glaciers
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Views down into the glacier valley from the track amidst the ice maze on the Franz Josef Glacier's terminus - Westland National Park, West Coast, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Glacial Landforms
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
A massive ice cave on the Franz Josef Glacier falls apart. The thinning ice transforms the daylight into shades of blue/turquoise colours - Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Names Franz Josef and Fox
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Lake Matheson which was formed by the retreating Fox Glacier about 14.000 years ago - Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Guiding history on FJG
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
Tourists are enjoying the extraordinary scenery of the Franz Josef Glacier with its biggest icefall in the background - Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Ice Legacy
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
An impressive view from the Defiance Ridge of the sprawling Franz Josef Glacier - Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
Okarito Brown Kiwi
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Card size: 24cm x 14cm
ROWI - Okarito Brown Kiwi in its burrow and natural habitat in the South Okarito Forest - Westland National Park, South Island, New Zealand
Price: NZ$3.00
The Glacier Beauty
ID: booklet
12 tear out postcards in this booklet from Franz Josef Glacier - Westland National Park, West Coast, New Zealand
Booklet size: 21.5cm x 10cm
Price: NZ$10.00
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