File:Tourists Climbing Fox Glacier 1966 (25898945172).jpg
Long before Westland National Park was constituted tourists from all over the world visited the glaciers, with numbers increasing in the 1900s as roads were formed and hotel accommodation become available. Because of the remoteness of the area it was slower to get established than other tourist hubs like Rotorua and Tongariro but was popular with more adventurous tourists in the early decades of the twentieth century
This image shows a group of tourists on the Fox Glacier in 1966. The glaciers are the nucleus of the national park and with their close proximity to rainforest were (are?) considered unique. The region has become one of New Zealand’s premier tourist destinations although recent drastic glacier retreat has made access onto the ice difficult. While groups like these could walk easily onto the glacier from the riverbed, today’s tourists have to be helicoptered up onto the ice.
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