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Lake
Lake Matheson
Glacial lake about 5 km from the village of Fox Glacier, surrounded by forest. On calm mornings the dark water reflects Aoraki/Mount Cook and Mount Tasman. Trail around the lake.
West Coast · New Zealand
Fox Glacier
In the destination West Coast and the Glaciers.
In the photo: Lake Matheson near Fox Glacier
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The city
What to expect from Fox Glacier.
Fox Glacier (Weheka) is a village of about 200 residents on State Highway 6, 23 km from Franz Josef, near the glacier of the same name. About 5 km away is Lake Matheson, which reflects Aoraki/Mount Cook and Mount Tasman on windless mornings, and roughly 20 km away is Gillespies Beach, a dark-sand shore associated with the gold rush.
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The local experience
What to see in Fox Glacier
Glacier
Fox Glacier
About a 12 km glacier that descends from the Southern Alps near the village of the same name. Seen from lookouts and from the south bank trail of the Fox River; the ice can only be reached by helicopter.
Beach
Gillespies Beach
Dark-sand and driftwood beach on the Tasman Sea, about 20 km from the village of Fox Glacier, where there was a gold-mining settlement in the 1860s. Campsite and coastal tracks.