nowa_zelandia
Nowa Zelandia (język maoryski Aotearoa ? Kraj Długiej Białej Chmury) ? państwo wyspiarskie, położone na południowym Pacyfiku, na wschód od Australii, zamieszkane przez nieco ponad 4 miliony osób, z czego ok. 80% jest pochodzenia europejskiego, pozostali to Maorysi oraz różne ludy Oceanii i Azji.
Rotorua
Rotorua, miasto w Nowej Zelandii (Wyspa Północna). Jest to najważniejszy ośrodek kultury Maorysów, znajduje się tam jedyny maoryski teatr.Jest to stolica zjawisk geotermalnych.Położony jest na teranie Tongariro National Park.
Auckland
Auckland - największe miasto Nowej Zelandii, położone w północno-zachodniej części Wyspy Północnej, między Morzem Tasmana i Oceanem Spokojnym (Przesmyk Tamaki).
Taupo - Tongariro
Mount Tongariro is a volcanic complex in the North Island of New Zealand. It is located 20 kilometres to the southwest of Lake Taupo, and is the northernmost of the three active volcanoes that dominate the landscape of the central North Island.
The volcanic massif, often simply referred to as Tongariro, has a height of 1978 metres. It first erupted about 260,000 years ago, and has erupted as recently as 1974 to 1975. The volcano consists of at least 12 cones; Ngauruhoe, while often regarded as a separate mountain, is geologically a vent of Tongariro. Red Crater last erupted ash in 1926 and contains active fumaroles.
Tongariro is in the Tongariro National Park, New Zealand's first national park and one of the earliest in the world. It given to the nation in 1887 by Te Heuheu Tukino IV (Horonuku), paramount chief of the M?ori Ngati Tuwharetoa iwi in order to preserve its natural beauty. The park also includes the peaks of Ngauruhoe and Mount Ruapehu, both of which lie to the southwest of Tongariro. The national park is a dual World Heritage Area for its outstanding natural and intangible cultural values.
The popular hiking route called Tongariro Crossing passes between Tongariro and Ngauruhoe.
Taranaki
Taranaki - region w zachodniej części Wyspy Północnej w Nowej Zelandii.
Znajduje się tam góra o tej samej nazwie, będąca punktem charakterystycznym regionu.
Coromandel
Coromandel is the name of a town and harbour on the western side of the Coromandel Peninsula, which is on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. They are 75 kilometres east of the city of Auckland, although the road between them, which winds around the Firth of Thames and Hauraki Gulf coasts, is 190 km long.
The town was named after the peninsula, which was named after HMS Coromandel, which sailed into the harbour in 1820. At one time it was a major port serving the peninsula's gold mining and kauri industries. Today, the town's main industries are tourism and mussel farming.
Coromandel Harbour is a wide bay on the Hauraki Gulf guarded by several islands, of which the largest is Whanganui Island.
The town and environs are a popular summer holiday destination for New Zealanders. Coromandel is noted for its artists, crafts, alternative lifestylers, mussel farming, and recreational fishing. Population (2003 estimate) is 1,620.
Punakaiki
Punakaiki is a small community on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, between Westport and Greymouth. The community lies on the edge of the Paparoa National Park.
The Pancake Rocks are a popular tourist attraction at Dolomite Point south of the main village. The Pancake Rocks are a heavily eroded limestone area where the sea bursts though a number of vertical blowholes during high tides. Together with the 'pancake'-layering of the limestone, these form the main attractions, which are presently explorable by a number of walkways winding through the rock formations, parts of these wheelchair-accessible and others carved into stairways up and down the rock faces.
State Highway 6, the only through road on the West Coast, passes through the town.
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West Coast
The West Coast is one of the administrative regions of New Zealand, located on the west coast of the South Island, and is one of the more remote and most sparsely populated areas of the country. It is made up of three districts: Buller, Grey and Westland. The principal towns are Westport,Greymouth and Hokitika.
Queenstown
Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. The town is built around an inlet on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin lake shaped like a staggered lightning bolt, and has spectactular views of nearby mountains.
There are various apocryphal accounts of how the town was named, the most popular suggesting that a local gold digger exclaimed that the town was "fit for Queen Victoria". It is sometimes disparagaingly referred to as "Vegas by the Lake" for a perceived fixation on commerce-oriented tourism, especially adventure and ski tourism. It is popular with young international and New Zealand travellers alike.
The town is the largest centre in Central Otago, but for some administrative purposes it is considered part of Southland. According to the 2001 census, the usually resident population of the Queenstown urban area (including Frankton and Kelvin Heights) is 8535, an increase of 19.3% since 1996.
Mt. Cook
Góra Cooka (ang. Mount Cook, maoryski Aoraki) - najwyższy szczyt Nowej Zelandii, położony w Alpach Południowych, łańcuchu górskim ciągnącym się wzdłuż zachodniego wybrzeża Wyspy Południowej. Jego wysokość to obecnie 3754 m n.p.m. (w grudniu 1991 na skutek osunięcia się skał wysokość zmniejszyła się o 10 m).
Na zboczach znajdują się dwa lodowce górskie: Lodowiec Tasmana i Hookera. Szczyt objęty jest ochroną w parku narodowym Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park.
Góra Cooka jest miejscem często odwiedzanym przez turystów.
Nazwa została nadana na cześć kapitana Jamesa Cooka, który jako pierwszy dotarł do Nowej Zelandii w 1770.
Park Narodowy Fiorland
Park Narodowy Fiorland - zajmuje dzikie tereny w pd.-zach. części Wyspy Południowej; w krajobrazie dominują wysokie szczyty górskie, z kulminacją 2756 m n.p.m., należące do pasm Cameron, Hunter, Franklin, Murchinson i Stuart; atrakcję stanowią głębokie doliny i jeziora polodowcowe (Te Anau, Manapouri), malownicze wodospady (najwyższy Sutherland - 550 m) i fiordy, ze słynnym Milford Sound; szatę roślinną tworzą wiecznie zielone lasy liściaste z bukiem południowym, mieszane lasy iglaste z podokarpem i zbiorowiska trawiaste (tussock); na wybrzeżach żyją: delfiny, uchatki, kotiki i pingwiny Victoria, w głębi lądu dwa gatunki endemicznych nietoperzy oraz papugi kea; ostoja rzadkich ptaków - kiwi, takahe, weki i papugi kakapo.
Park Narodowy Abel Tasman
