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Resident African lion "Zion" Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary is a privately owned zoo located near Kamo, Whangārei, New Zealand.The facility houses a collection of two species of large cats and was formerly used as a location for the filming of the television series The Lion Man.
An alpine park containing New Zealand's highest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook (3,724 m) and its longest glacier, Haupapa / Tasman Glacier (29 km). A hotspot for mountaineering, ski touring and scenic flights, the park is an area of outstanding natural beauty. Arthur's Pass National Park: 1,185 458 1929
The fiords of New Zealand (Māori: tai matapari "bluff sea" [1] [2]) are all located in the southwest of the South Island, in a mountainous area known as Fiordland. A fiord is a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes, which results from marine inundation of a glaciated valley .
The town is located just outside the boundary of Tongariro National Park, New Zealand's first national park. It is sited next to the North Island Main Trunk railway line and close to the junction of State Highways 4 and 47, halfway between Ohakune and Taumarunui and 45 kilometres southwest of the southern shore of Lake Taupō.
There are three World Heritage Sites in New Zealand and a further eight sites on the tentative list. [3] The first two sites were listed in 1990 and the third one in 1998. Tongariro National Park is listed for its cultural and natural significance while the other two sites are natural. New Zealand has served on the World Heritage Committee once ...
Te Wāhipounamu (Māori for "the place of greenstone") is a World Heritage Site in the south west corner of the South Island of New Zealand.. Inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1990 and covering 26,000 square kilometres (10,000 sq mi), the site incorporates four national parks:
Lake Taupō, New Zealand's largest lake Lake Wakatipu from Queenstown Lake Tekapo Lake Rotorua from above Rotorua Lake Hauroko, New Zealand's deepest lake Ōkārito Lagoon. This is a list of lakes in New Zealand. A lake's location is identified by the region and either the territorial authority or national park (N.P.). There are:
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]