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The Canterbury region. Canterbury in New Zealand is the portion of the South Island to the east of the Southern Alps / Kā Tiritiri o te Moana, from the Waiau Uwha River in the north, to the Waitaki River in the south (this is smaller than the area administered by Environment Canterbury).
The following is a list of some of the more well known caves and caverns in New Zealand.. Not all caves have an official name as set by the New Zealand Geographic Board. The national caving association maintains maps of all known surveyed caves and the name is generally allocated by the group who first discovered the cave.
Rawhiti Cave, also known as Manson Cave, is a single large limestone cave in the hillside of the Dry Creek Valley 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) southeast of Tākaka on the South Island of New Zealand. [1] It is referred to as Manson Cave in the NZ Topo Map, [ 2 ] after owners in the early 20th century, [ 3 ] however the cave is known as Rawhiti Cave ...
Humour Adventure Blitz Boy Paddy Brennan: 1962 1963 Adventure My Home Town Long running feature where readers sent in information about their home towns. Frank McDiarmid 1962 1970 Feature Bobcat Boy Jack Glass 1963 1963 Adventure Big Head and Thick Head Ken Reid: Frank McDiarmid 1963 1967 Humour Rocket Jock Charles Grigg: 1963 1963 Adventure
A true-colour image of the South Island, after a powerful winter storm swept across New Zealand on 12 June 2006 Lake Ōhau Aoraki / Mount Cook is the tallest mountain in New Zealand. The South Island, with an area of 150,437 km 2 (58,084 sq mi), [1] is the largest landmass of New Zealand; it contains about one-quarter of the New Zealand ...
Paparoa National Park is on the west coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The park was established in 1987 and encompasses 430 km 2 (170 sq mi). [ 1 ] The park ranges from or near the coastline to the peaks of the Paparoa Range .
Cave is a town located in the Timaru District, South Island, New Zealand.It is approximately 23 kilometres (14 mi) north-west of Timaru on State Highway 8. St. David's Memorial Church was commissioned by Thomas Burnett and designed by Herbert W. Hall. Built in 1930, it is registered as a category I heritage building with Heritage New Zealand.
Cave Creek / Kotihotiho (Māori: Kotihotiho) [1] is a small river within Paparoa National Park, on the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island.. The creek takes a portion of its name from the limestone cave from which it emerges, flowing through Paparoa National Park's karst landscape for roughly 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) before joining the larger Pororari River.