Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand travel guide

other Sights:

• Paterson Inlet,
• Baldwin Street,
• University of Otago

other points of interest:

• Greymouth,
• Queenstown,
• Christchurch

Te Wahipounamu – South West New Zealand

The beautiful landscape of this park was shaped by the Ice Age.

The landscape in this park, situated in south-west New Zealand, has been shaped by successive glaciations into fjords, rocky coasts, towering cliffs, lakes and waterfalls. Two-thirds of the park is covered with southern beech and podocarps, some of which are over 800 years old. The kea, the only alpine parrot in the world, lives in the park, as does the rare and endangered takahe, a large flightless bird.