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RealNZ is a New Zealand tourism company based in Queenstown. The company offers a range of travel, cruises and excursions in Queenstown, Milford Sound / Piopiotahi, Te Anau, Fiordland and Stewart Island / Rakiura. [1] It also operates two skifields Cardrona Alpine Resort, and Treble Cone.
State Highway 94 is a New Zealand state highway connecting the large Southland town of Gore with one of New Zealand's most popular destinations, Milford Sound.It also passes the significant townships of Lumsden and Te Anau as well going through the Homer Tunnel (in this area it is also called the 'Milford Road', with the section from Te Anau up to the Sound being 119 kilometres or 74 miles). [1]
As a result of Milford Sound's high rainfall and the density of salt water, the surface of Milford Sound is a layer of freshwater containing tannins from the surrounding rainforest. [22] This filters much of the sunlight which enters the water, allowing for a variety of Black coral to be found at depths of as shallow as 10 metres (33 ft ...
Milford Sound is a fjord in the southwest of the South Island of New Zealand, located in Fiordland, the most remote and least populated region of the country.Divided from more populous areas to the east by the high southern spurs of the Southern Alps, its only entry apart from a difficult mountain road is a narrow channel to the Tasman Sea, which explorer Captain Cook did not enter during his ...
"Tom [Cruise] said, 'I want to drive a motorcycle off a cliff.' And I said, 'OK, I want to wreck a train,'" says "Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One" director, co-writer and producer ...
Milford Sound village covers 8.34 km 2 (3.22 sq mi), [1] and is part of the much larger but almost entirely unpopulated Fiordland statistical area. [ 15 ] The village had a population of 105 at the 2018 New Zealand census , an increase of 9 people (9.4%) since the 2013 census , and unchanged since the 2006 census .
Chandler, 57, died last Saturday after a motorcycle crash on East Central Street (Route 140), authorities said. "He was a really impactful guy," said Tyrone Pinkham, Chandler's best friend since ...
4 April – Czech Republic – 2021 Světec train crash: Express freight train No. 54334 of ORLEN Unipetrol Doprava (UNIDO), hauled by locomotive 753.740 collided with ČD Cargo freight train No. 66403, hauled by locomotive 123.023, at Světec Station. The driver of the ČD Cargo train jumped out of the locomotive and survived, but the driver ...