The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 11, Issue 3 (June 1, 1936)
Contents
Contents
page | |
Among the Books | 49–51 |
Cross Creek | 42–43 |
Editorial—Travel Clubs | 7 |
Famous New Zealanders | 17–41 |
General Manager's Message | 8 |
Heroes of the Rail | 10–14 |
Heroic Lives | 52–53 |
Limited Night Entertainments | 36–39 |
On the Road to Anywhere | 32–33 |
Our London Letter | 25–27 |
Our Women's Section | 57–59 |
Panorama of the Playground | 56–60 |
Pictures of N.Z. Life | 29 |
Pots and Pets | 22–23 |
The Franco-Ethiopian Railway | 31 |
The People of Pudding Hill | 45–47 |
The Wisdom of the Maori | 35 |
Variety in Brief | 61 |
Wit and Humour | 63 |
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25/3/35.
A view of the famous Fox Glacier from Cove Rock, South Westland, New Zealand.
(Rly. Publicity photo)
In a descent of 9,000 ft. the Fox Glacier comes down to 670 ft. above sea level. Nowhere else in the world does a glacier dip so low, except in the Arctic and Antarctic, with their quite different snow level. The area of ice, tributaries, and snowfield, has been estimated at 10,894 acres for the Fox Glacier.
“The splendour of silence—of snowjewelled mountains and ice.”
Ingram Crockett.