Check the weblink later for an update. This is the summary I have received from the contractor: A slip at Omoeroa, in the Fox Hills, between Franz and Fox has closed the road. Contractors are on ...

I choose the full-day hike on Franz Josef to get high up the glacier, into the pristine blue-and-white ice and, to be fair, I also take a half-day hike on Fox Glacier. A day on Franz Josef is a ...

Franz Josef, New Zealand, population 330 ... By Bus: Most tour busses on the South Island make Franz Joseph or nearby Fox Glacier a stop on their tour. Also, several other tourist busses like ...

A runway strip parallel with the main road at Franz Josef and feeding various helipads was in the pipeline, as well as a heliport facility in Fox Glacier controlled by Hokitika Airport Ltd with ...

Lush trees surrender to moraine and then the fissured surface of Franz Josef Glacier, which, from the air, looks like a tsunami frozen in time. The pilot sets us down on its surface to disembark ...

Two tourists have been swept to their deaths while walking near the Franz Josef Glacier. Two tourists have been swept to their deaths while walking near the Franz Josef Glacier. They were part of ...

A West Coast landmark and town will keep its more than a century-old misspelling after plans to correct the typo were quashed. Franz Josef Glacier was named in 1866 after then-emperor of Austria ...