NEW ZEALAND / AOTEAROA.
Fox Glacier, Westland Tai Poutini National Park.
Stamp issued on 30.07.1968.
Face value: 28 cents of New Zealand dollar.
Printing: Photogravure.
Size: 24.3 x 30 mm.
Catalogs
- Michel No. 486.
- Scott No. 398.
- StampWorld No. 502.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 878.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 457A.
Fox
Glacier (Māori: Te Moeka o Tuawe) is a 13-kilometre-long (8.1 mi)
temperate maritime glacier located in Westland
Tai Poutini National Park on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.
Fox Glacier descends 2,600 m (8,500 ft) from the Southern Alps towards
the coast: Like nearby Franz Josef Glacier,
it is one of the most accessible glaciers in the world, with a terminal face as
low as 300 m above sea level. In 1857 local Māori led Leonard Harper and Edwin
Fox to both glaciers, the first Europeans to see them. In 1865, German
geologist Julius von
Haast was the first to explore and survey the glaciers at the head of this
valley, and named them Victoria and Albert, after the queen and her consort.
The Victoria Glacier kept its name, but the lower part of the Albert Glacier
was renamed in 1872 after a visit by then Premier of New Zealand William Fox.
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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).
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