New Zealand Photos

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:51:32

Church of the Good Shepherd, South Island

Photograph by Thomas Young, My Shot

An old stone church sits among the placid grasses of New Zealand's South Island, a land known for its wide expanses of untouched land and vast farming outlets.

Aotearoa, or "the long white cloud," was the first name given to New Zealand when the Maoris arrived on its inlet shores centuries before European explorers sailed through the Pacific waters. Within the compact island nation there are alps to rival Switzerland’s, plains more fruitful than England’s, streams and rivers as laden with fish as Scotland’s, fiords reminiscent of Norway’s, and beaches as alluring as California’s.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:51:50

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Franz Josef Glacier, South Island

Photograph by David McLain

Hikers negotiate a crevasse on Franz Josef Glacier on South Island. This highly accessible river of ice begins in the peaks of the Southern Alps, but flows some 8,000 vertical feet (2,400 vertical meters) into the lush rain forest of New Zealand's Westlands National Park.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:52:00

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Cathedral Square, Christchurch

Photograph by Jose Fuste Raga/Photo Library

New meets old in Cathedral Square, center of Christchurch. The largest city on South Island, Christchurch has been called "the most English city outside England."

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:52:11

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Tram, Christchurch

Photograph by Claver Carroll/Photo Library

A tram shuttles visitors through the heart of Christchurch. At its founding in 1850, poet Denis Glover called the city's site “the most miasmal part of the Canterbury Plains,” beset with bog, fog, and mud. English customs, willow trees, and Gothic architecture now flavor the city.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:52:23

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Mount Cook

Photograph by Edward Weglarz, My Shot

Muscular mountains and chasms “frightful to behold” impressed Captain James Cook, who in 1773 became the first European to explore this region. Brawny peaks still embrace lakes in terrain as daunting as it is remote.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:52:36

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Geothermal Park, Rotorua

Photograph by Rachael Gordon, My Shot

Steaming sulfur waters, geysers, and pools of boiling mud have lured sightseers to Rotorua for well more than a century. Local Maori have used the water to heal hunting wounds.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:52:48

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Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve

Photograph by Brian J. Skerry

Undisturbed species like Sandager’s wrasse attract sport divers from around the globe to Poor Knights reserve. Though off-limits to commercial fishing since 1981, the island reserve suffered pressure from recreational fishing until 1998, when full protection was conferred.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:53:02

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Fiordland National Park

Photograph by Annie Griffiths Belt

Flourishing greenery beckons hikers and explorers to tread the many famous paths of Fiordland. Trails lush with ferns and mosses evoke author J. R. R. Tolkien’s mythical forests, where “shadows lay by night and day, and dark things silent crept beneath.”

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:53:17

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Fiordland National Park

Photograph by Brian J. Skerry

Webs of cascading water, veils of cloud, and stands of silver beech lend mystery to secluded Fiordland, New Zealand's largest national park. Precipitation here tops 21 feet (6.4 meters) a year, making it one of the wettest places on Earth.

雪儿 · 发表于: 2011-11-11 16:53:29

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Doubtful Sound

Photograph by Annie Griffiths Belt

Gliding with uncanny grace, bottlenose dolphins pass the scalloped shadow of a mountain peak in Fiordland, New Zealand’s largest national park. Fiordland’s dolphins may spend their entire lives in a single fiord—denizens of an isolated world as dramatic above water as it is below.

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