Fox Glacier topographic map

Name: Fox Glacier topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Fox Glacier, Westland District, West Coast, New Zealand (-43.53543 170.06385 -43.49793 170.16953)

Average elevation: 1,836 m

Minimum elevation: 718 m

Maximum elevation: 3,044 m

Chancellor Hut was built in 1930–31 on the southwest face of Chancellor Ridge, now 200 m above the glacier. Planned by mountain guides Alec and Peter Graham in 1929, all the materials had to be packed up Fox Glacier manually in 1930 in the days before helicopter airlifts. It is the oldest remaining mountain hut in the Southern Alps still on its original site, and is a Category II Historic Building on the Heritage New Zealand list. At an altitude of 1200 m, it was designed to provide climbing opportunities to tourists, rather than as a staging post for mountaineers climbing on the Great Divide. A hut was also built at 5,000 feet (1,500 m) on Craig's Peak (6,000 feet (1,800 m)) for overnight climbing trips.

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