Our unique landscape and wildlife – 05 Jan 2008 – NZ Herald: New Zealand and International Environment News
The landform diversity of an entire continent has been squeezed into the New Zealand archipelago: over 700 islands and a very long and intricate coastline of more than 15,000 km; fiords, some reaching more than 30km from the Tasman Sea into the remote mountainous interior of Fiordland; the extinct shield volcanoes of Banks Peninsula, Otago Peninsula and Chatham Island; karst landforms; cone volcanoes; the huge outwash fan of the Canterbury Plains; the Alpine Fault through the West Coast; uplifted marine terraces; geothermal features.
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Our unique landscape and wildlife
January 5, 2008 by richard b
Whakatikei Forest Restoration Project
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