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Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand

Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand sight

Southwest of South Island, New zealand

The landscape in this park, situated in south-west New Zealand, has been shaped by successive glaciations into fjords, rocky coasts, towering cliffs, lakes and waterfalls. Two-thirds of the park is covered with southern beech and podocarps, some of which are over 800 years old. The kea, the only al...

Tongariro National Park

Tongariro National Park sight

New zealand

In 1993 Tongariro became the first property to be inscribed on the World Heritage List under the revised criteria describing cultural landscapes. The mountains at the heart of the park have cultural and religious significance for the Maori people and symbolize the spiritual links between this commu...

New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands

New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands sight

New Zealand Subantartic zone, New zealand

The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands consist of five island groups (the Snares, Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands and Campbell Island) in the Southern Ocean south-east of New Zealand. The islands, lying between the Antarctic and Subtropical Convergences and the seas, have a high ...

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