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Fiordland National Park is a national park in the south-west corner of South Island of New Zealand. It is the largest of the 13 national parks in New Zealand , with an area covering 12,607 km 2 (4,868 sq mi), [ 1 ] and a major part of the Te Wāhipounamu a UNESCO World Heritage Site established in 1990.
Map of Fiordland National Park. The following is a list of the sounds and inlets or similar features which punctuate the coast of Fiordland, in southwestern New Zealand, in geographic order from north to south: Big Bay; Martins Bay; Milford Sound; Poison Bay; Sutherland Sound; Hāwea / Bligh Sound. Bounty Haven; George Sound. South West Arm ...
Simple map of the Doubtful Sound complex of fiords and islands. Doubtful Sound lies deep within the Fiordland National Park, about 50 kilometres (31 mi) from the nearest inhabited place, the small town of Manapouri, and is surrounded by mountainous terrain with peaks typically reaching 1,300–1,600 metres (4,300–5,200 ft). Along the coast ...
Rakituma / Preservation Inlet is the southernmost fiord in Fiordland National Park and lies on the southwest corner of the South Island of New Zealand. With an area of 93 square kilometres (36 sq mi), it is the fourth largest fiord in New Zealand, after Tamatea / Dusky Sound, Doubtful Sound / Patea, and the neighbouring Taiari / Chalky Inlet to the north.
Milford Sound (Māori: Piopiotahi, officially gazetted as Milford Sound / Piopiotahi) is a fiord in the south west of New Zealand's South Island within Fiordland National Park, Piopiotahi (Milford Sound) Marine Reserve, and the Te Wahipounamu World Heritage site.
The decrepit wharf left over from the 1917–1928 logging days, at Mussel Beach ()The Hump Ridge Track, also called the Tuatapere Hump Ridge Track, is a 61 km walking track that is partly in Fiordland National Park in New Zealand. [1]
The Franklin Mountains of New Zealand are a group of peaks in the southwestern area of the South Island, located between Bligh Sound and Lake Te Anau, within Fiordland National Park. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
Puysegur Point is a headland located in the far southwest of the South Island of New Zealand. [1] It lies within Fiordland National Park on the southern head of Preservation Inlet and is 145 kilometres (90 mi) west-northwest of Invercargill.