Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand
Home to all but one of New Zealand's 20 highest peaks, including the highest, and eponymous, Aoraki (Mount Cook), this national park is 700 square kilometres of predictably mountainous terrain and glaciers and, together with the neighbouring Westland Tai Poutini National Park, forms the Te Wahipounamu South Westland World Heritage Site.
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New Zealand's national parks
The national parks of New Zealand are 14 protected areas administered by the Department of Conservation[1] for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the public.[2] They are popular tourist destinations, with three-tenths of overseas tourists visiting at least one national park during their stay in New Zealand.[3] Although the national parks contain some of New Zealand's most beautiful scenery, the first few established were all focused on mountain scenery. Since the 1980s the focus has been on developing a more diverse representation of New Zealand landscapes.[4] The parks are all culturally significant; many also contain historic features.[5] Tongariro National Park, in particular, is one of 27 World Heritage Sites that is of both cultural and natural significance, while four of the South Island national parks form Te Wahipounamu, another World Heritage Site.
Queenstown to Mt.Cook
We left Queenstown to travel both South and North island and possibly find a new place to live.
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NZ【Te Wahipounamu】Fiordland National Park - South West of New Zealand
Compiling our road trip and scenery of Fiordland National Park, the South West of New Zealand.
Eric in New Zealand
Starting from Queenstown, Eric tramps, climbs and paddles through three parks that make up Te Wahipounamu World Heritage Site - Fiordland National Park, Mt. Aspiring National Park, and Aoraki / Mt. Cook National Park - enjoy!
Climbing the Mitre Peak, New Zealand (2016)
Ludvigs showed up the other day with the footage from his climb on the top of iconic Mitre Peak, and asked me if I can edit it for him, so I did.
Part of the reason for Mitre Peak's (Māori Rahotu) iconic status is its location. Close to the shore of Milford Sound, in the Fiordland National Park in the southwestern South Island, it is a stunning sight.The mountain rises near vertically to 5,560 feet (1,690 m), i.e. just over a mile, from the water of the sound; it is more technically a fjord. The peak is actually a closely grouped set of five peaks, although from most easily accessible viewpoints it appears as a single point. Milford Sound is part of Te Wahipounamu, a World Heritage Site as declared by UNESCO.
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Wilderness Scientific Reserve - Te Wahipounamu
Rundumblick in Te Wahipounamu, The Key, Südinsel, Neuseeland während unseres Wohnmobilurlaubs 2016. Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand World Heritage Area
Timeline of the New Zealand environment | Wikipedia audio article
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00:00:13 1 Pre 1700s
00:00:41 2 1760s
00:01:10 3 1790s
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00:08:19 16 1960s
00:08:57 17 1970s
00:11:47 18 1980s
00:14:10 19 1990s
00:17:28 20 2000s
00:27:22 21 2010s
00:28:28 22 See also
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The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area; the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean. The South Island covers 150,437 square kilometres (58,084 sq mi), making it the world's 12th-largest island. It has a temperate climate.
It has a 32 percent larger landmass than the North Island so is sometimes referred to as the mainland of New Zealand, especially by South Island residents, but only 23 percent of New Zealand's 4.9 million inhabitants live there. In the early stages of European (Pākehā) settlement of the country, the South Island had the majority of the European population and wealth due to the 1860s gold rushes. The North Island population overtook the South in the early 20th century, with 56 percent of the population living in the North in 1911, and the drift north of people and businesses continued throughout the century.