Fox Peak is a small
club skifield located to the east of
Lake Tekapo
Lake Tekapo () is the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand (the others are Lake Pukaki and Lake Ōhau). It covers an area of and ...
in New Zealand's
South Island
The South Island ( , 'the waters of Pounamu, Greenstone') is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand by surface area, the others being the smaller but more populous North Island and Stewart Island. It is bordered to the north by ...
. Run by a non-profit organisation, the resort features four ski tows and a total vertical range of . While it is not the original Māori name it was previously called Rowley Peak, named after
Thomas Rowley of the
Canterbury Association
The Canterbury Association was formed in 1848 in England by Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), members of parliament, Peerage of the United Kingdom, peers, and Anglicanism, Anglican church leaders, to establish a colony in New Zealand. The se ...
, who was Dean-designate of
ChristChurch Cathedral, but who never emigrated to New Zealand.
See also
*
List of ski areas and resorts in New Zealand
External links
*http://www.foxpeak.co.nz/
References
Ski areas and resorts in the Canterbury Region
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