Franz Josef Land comprises 192 islands, most of them built of Mesozoic sediments covered with a capping of columnar basalt, and so flat across the top that, viewed without ice (as they ...

Franz Josef is the fourth-largest glacier in New Zealand, 12km long with a snowfield of 20sq km. Yet up close it’s no smooth sea of ice but a patchwork of rocks, caves, seracs and crevasses ...