It provides panoramic views of Fox Glacier and the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana.

The site is part of a programme called Tohu Whenua – landmarks that have shaped the nation.

The installations at the site include contemporary designs by Fayne Robinson and Brent Brownlee, and tell a Ngāi Tahu creation story.

However, they found only a vast ocean so they began their return to the sky but Aoraki, as the eldest and leader, forgot the karakia at the vital moment and the waka crashed back into the sea, where it remains, capsized on its side with Aoraki and his brothers all petrified as New Zealand's tallest mountains.

[4] There is a memorial at the site to the nine people who died in a 2010 aircraft accident at Fox Glacier.