Stepping above the tree line takes you into a completely new environment - the alpine zone.
New Zealand's fiords are found along the southwest coast of the South Island. They give their name to the region and also our largest national park, Fiordland National Park.
Geothermal landscapes are far more than just visually fascinating features such as geysers and boiling mud pools.
A glacier is a large body of ice that is moving slowly downhill. New Zealand has about 3,150 glaciers.
Two hundred million years ago the continents of Antarctica, South America, Africa, India and Australia were joined together as a single supercontinent known as Gondwana, or Gondwanaland.
Coastal sand dunes are much more than heaps of wind-driven sand. They are home to a number of unique native plant and animal communities which exist nowhere else.
Volcanoes are the landforms produced when molten rock escapes to the earth's surface. Volcanic activity has created many of the iconic features that we associate with New Zealand.
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