Specifically, on which island is the Franz Josef Glacier?
Franz Josef Glacier the glacier is via the 8 hour day hike up the high Alex Knob, overlooking the Franz Josef Glacier and valley below. The path up Alex Knob is of good tramping track standard, but strenuous due to steeply climbing about in height and considered "advanced" due to the duration of the hike. Franz Josef Glacier Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere is a long temperate maritime glacier located in Westland Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island. Together with the Fox Glacier to the south, and a third glacier, it descends
Franz Josef Glacier his death. Hine Hukatere was broken-hearted and her many, many tears flowed down the mountain and froze to form the glacier. Following the passage of the Ngai Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, the name of the glacier was officially altered to Franz Josef Glacier / Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere. Franz Josef Glacier is currently long and terminates from the Tasman Sea. Fed by a large snowfield at high altitude, it exhibits a cyclic pattern of advance and retreat, driven by differences between the volume of meltwater at the foot of the glacier and volume of snowfall feeding the névé.