
Маорийское имя ледника — Te Moeka o Tuawe – переводится на русский язык как «кровать Туаве». Под кроватью местное население понимает последнее место отдыха, то есть упокоения, своего легендарного предка Ту Аве. Слёзы его возлюбленной Хине Хукатэрэ, по преданиям маори, были столь велики, что, замёрзнув, сформировали огромный пласт льда, берущий своё начало в Южных Альпах и спускающийся по реке Фокс к океану.
Высота падения ледника составляет две тысячи шестьсот метров, протяжённость – тринадцать километров. Четыре ледяных схода заканчиваются в трёхстах метрах от моря. Нижняя граница ледника проходит по пышному тропическому лесу.




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The Maoriysky name of a glacier — Te Moeka o Tuawe – is translated into Russian as "a bed to Tuava". The local population understands the last vacation spot as a bed, that is rest, the legendary ancestor of Tu to Ava. Tears to his loved Gina Jucatere, according to legends of Maori, were so great that, having frozen, created the huge layer of ice originating in the Southern Alps and which is going down down the river Fox to the ocean.
Height of falling of a glacier makes two thousand six hundred meters, extent – thirteen kilometers. Four ice descents come to an end in three hundred meters from the sea. The lower bound of a glacier passes on a magnificent rainforest.
Throughout the last century the New Zealand ices were in process of approach. Since 1985 Fox's glacier daily slips down on average on forty centimeters. In 2006 this figure increased to one meter per day.
Fox's glacier enjoys big love at tourists. Walks to it get a job in the Tourist center of the town of Uekhek located in six kilometers from picturesque ice masses. Pass to a glacier the free. For its visit it is desirable to put on more warmly as around ices usually happens very cold and it is windy. In several tens kilometers from Fox's glacier there is Franz Joseph's glacier and Bruce's gulf.
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