RIVER OF ICE FROM the ice-fields of Cook, Tasman and a host of other peaks, a river of ice, hundreds of feet thick, is forced down a comparatively narow gorge to within a few hundred feet of the sea. The name of this river of ice is the Franz Josef Glacier. Its terminal face is only 700 feet above sea-level. In the European Alps, the average altitude of the terminal face of glaciers is above 4000 feet, and one must sail along the coast of Norway as far north as 67 degrees before one finds a glacier that so, nearly approaches the sea as does the Franz Josef. (Government Publicity Photos )
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 22 (Supplement)
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111RIVER OF ICE FROM the ice-fields of Cook, Tasman and a host of other peaks, a river of ice, hundreds of feet thick, is forced down a comparatively narow gorge to within a few hundred feet of the sea. The name of this river of ice is the Franz Josef Glacier. Its terminal face is only 700 feet above sea-level. In the European Alps, the average altitude of the terminal face of glaciers is above 4000 feet, and one must sail along the coast of Norway as far north as 67 degrees before one finds a glacier that so, nearly approaches the sea as does the Franz Josef. (Government Publicity Photos ) Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 22 (Supplement)
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