It seems improbable that you could find a glacier on a South Pacific island and ice in a temperate rainforest, but that's New Zealand for youfull of surprises. Nowhere else in the world outside arctic regions will you find glaciers just 305m (1,000 ft.) above sea level and just 12km (7 1/2 miles) from the sea.
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