The Okarito kiwi, also known as the rowi or Okarito brown kiwi, is a member of the kiwi family Apterygidae, described as new to science in 2003. The species is part of the brown kiwi complex, and is m
The West Coast Wildlife Centre, at Franz Josef, is part of Project Nest Egg, breeding rowi.
Taxidermy Okarito kiwi at the Auckland Zoo
Franz Josef is a small town in the West Coast region of the South Island of New Zealand. Whataroa is 32 kilometres to the north-east, and the township of Fox Glacier is 23 kilometres to the south-west
Franz Josef (middle left), next to the Waiho River, as seen from Alex Knob
Grahams Hotel at the toe of the Franz Josef Glacier, 1932. Established about 1911 by the Graham brothers and run by them it was sold to the New Zealand Government in 1947
State Highway 6 running through Franz Josef