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The largest national park in New Zealand and one of the largest in the world, the park covers the southwest corner of the South Island. The park's scenery, with its deep fiords, its glacial lakes, its mountains and waterfalls, make it a popular tourist destination. Kahurangi National Park: 4,529 1,749 1996
The new name, Zion, had greater appeal to an ethnocentric audience." [9] On November 19, 1919, Congress redesignated the monument as Zion National Park, and the act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson. [10] The Kolob section was proclaimed a separate Zion National Monument in 1937, but was incorporated into the national park in 1956. [11]
The Lion Man is a New Zealand television documentary series about a New Zealand big cat park called Zion Wildlife Gardens. The series was named after Craig Busch, the park's founder, [1] who had styled himself as "the Lion Man". The series followed Busch and the park's employees as they managed the park and its collection of approximately 30 ...
Map of the national parks of New Zealand. This is the project page for a dedicated effort to improve articles on the national parks of New Zealand.The goal of this collaboration is to significantly improve the quality of articles on our national parks, ideally to the point that they could be nominated for Good or Featured Article status.
Mount Green is set on the crest or Main Divide of the Southern Alps and is situated on the boundary shared by the West Coast and Canterbury Regions of South Island.This peak is located 17 kilometres (11 mi) northeast of Aoraki / Mount Cook and set on the boundary shared by Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park and Westland Tai Poutini National Park.
National Park is a small town on the North Island Central Plateau in New Zealand. Also known as National Park Village, it is the highest urban township in New Zealand, at 825 metres. The village has great views of Mount Tongariro, Mount Ngauruhoe (Mount Doom in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy), and Mount Ruapehu.
Aoraki / Mount Cook, located in New Zealand's South Island, is the highest point in the country. The following are lists of mountains in New Zealand [a] ordered by height. . Names, heights, topographic prominence and isolation, and coordinates were extracted from the official Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) Topo50 topographic maps at the interactive topographic map of New Zealand
Of New Zealand's 20 peaks over 3,000 m (9,800 ft), all except Mount Aspiring / Tititea lie within the park. [33] These include New Zealand's highest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook, at 3,724 m (12,218 ft). [34] Other prominent peaks in or nearby the national park include Mount Tasman, Mount Hicks, Mount Sefton and Mount Elie de Beaumont.